Immediate Emancipation the Only Wise And Safe Mode
Immediate Emancipation the Only Wise And Safe Mode
Lewis Tappan
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John's, a gentleman of long experience on the island, and agent for several estates: "Emancipation was an act of mere policy, adopted as (he safest and most economic measure. " Mr. Nugent, speaker of the Assembly at the time of emancipation, remarked : "A strong conviction existed that from peculiarity of climate and soil, the physical wants and necessities of the paasantrj'- would compel them to labor for their subsistence, to seek employment and wages from the proprietors of the soil ; and if... the trans foi'mation could be safely and quietly brought about, that the free system might be cheaper and more profitable than the other. " Antigua, that contained about 35, 000 inhabitants, of whom 30, 000 were slaves, rejected the apprenticeship, and concluded to have immediate emancipation, which took place August 1st, 1834. The event passed peaceably, al- though gloomy apprehensions were entertained by some of the planters, and notwithstanding several American vessels, which had lain for weeks in the harbor, weighed anchor on the 31st of July, and made their escape, through actual fear that the island would be destroyed on the following day!
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