Substance of the Debate in the House of Commons, On the 15th May, 1823, On a Motion for the ...
Substance of the Debate in the House of Commons, On the 15th May, 1823, On a Motion for the ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Only one of them once obtained a warrant against a person who had assaulted him, who begged his pardon and was forgiven. The same person, on coming from sea, was arrested the day he landed for a capitation tax on free persons, of which he had not been apprized, and put into prison. The next day he paid the money, about eighteen dollars, and was released. Several of them can read and write. Jeffery's wife, Grace, acts as schoolmistress : she reads well. They have lately built three houses in the...ir village, of wood, and shingled. The •whole of their houses had been destroyed by the hurricane of 1819, and have since been rebuilt. They are a fine healthy race, all black, having intermarried with each other; and seem to dwell very happily together." Now, we would put the question to Mr. Baring, Whether it .would have been more advantageous for the interests either of the individuals or of the state, that Mr. Nottingham's twenty-five AffftNIMX fcft. slaves had continued slaves (liable to all the risks of Inhuman' owner* and overseers, and all the other evils of that condition/ and particularly to that progressive diminution of their num- bers which haa been the common rate of the slaves in almost all our colonies, and among the rest in Tortoia) ; or that they should have been Kving free and in comfort for nearly fifty years, daring which they have accumulated some property, and have increased from twenty-five to forty-three ?
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