A History of Jamaica from Its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Present Time

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E. Stock, 1873 - 512 pàgines

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Pàgina 144 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Pàgina 487 - The evidence, oral and documentary, appears to us to be wholly insufficient to establish the charge upon which the prisoner took his trial.
Pàgina 257 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the wellbeing of the parties concerned.
Pàgina 278 - Trelawny, and we do sincerely hope that the bodies of all the Methodist preachers who may be convicted of sedition may diversify the scene. After this our hostility, even to men so reckless of blood, carnage, and slaughter, shall cease.
Pàgina 34 - We have done the like to the Windward English Islands ; and both in England and Scotland and Ireland, you will have what men and women we can well transport.
Pàgina 311 - to inquire into the working of the apprenticeship system in the colonies, the condition of the apprentices, and the laws and regulations affecting them which have been passed.
Pàgina 401 - ... such as may be necessary to preserve inviolate the faith of the island with the public creditor...
Pàgina 217 - Somerset, had established the axiom, that " as soon as any slave sets his foot on English " ground, he becomes free" there were many negroes in London who had been brought over by their masters.
Pàgina 98 - These punishments are sometimes merited by the blacks, who are a very perverse generation of people, and though they appear harsh, yet are scarce equal to some of their crimes, and inferior to what punishments other European nations inflict on their slaves in the East Indies, as may be seen by Moquet, and other travellers.
Pàgina 173 - Jewish (economics, these differ'd little from the wife, except in some outward ceremonies and stipulations, but agreed with her in all the true essences of marriage, and gave themselves up to the husband (for so he is called), with faith plighted, with sentiments, and with affection. Such a one the...

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