Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O
Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O
Thomas R Thomas Roderick Dew
The book Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O was written by author Thomas R Thomas Roderick Dew Here you can read free online of Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O a good or bad book?
What reading level is Review of the Debate On the Abolition of Slavery in the Virginia Legislature O book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
55 next twenty-five or fifty years, 12, 000 slaves, we should have very little hesitation in affirming, that the number of slaves in Virginia would not be at all lessened by the operation, and at the conclu- sion of the period such habits would be generated among our blacks, that for a long time after the cessation of the drain, popu- lation might advance so rapidly as to produce among us all the calamities and miseries of an over crowded people. ; We are not now dealing in mere conjecture ; th...ere is ample proof of the correctness of these anticipations in the history of our own hemisphere. The West India Islands, as we have before seen, are supplied with slaves more cheaply by the African slave trader than they can raise them, and consequently the black population in the Islands nowhere keeps up its numbers by natural increase. It ap- pears by a statement of Mr. F. Buxton recently published, that the total number of slaves in the British West Indies in 1817, was 730, 112. After a lapse of eleven years, in 1S2S, the numbers were reduced to678, 527, making a loss on the capita!
User Reviews: