Antislavery Recollections
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ISBN13: 9780217686518
Paperback|9780217686518
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER III. Colonial temper?The West Indian, interest in England?Committee of the African Institution?Congress at Vienna?Mr. Moxaulay?Mr. Babington?Apathy of the planters?Slate of public feeling. September 19th, 1854. My Dear Madam, It is not superfluous to vindicate the concluding paragraph of my last Letter, for some may think that there was nothing very extraordinary either in devising or in carrying through so simple a measure as registration. It will not he said hy those who understand the subject, or who recollect the then position of colonial and political affairs. The colonists were then and for many years after, so thoroughly imbued with all those prejudices, antipathies, and bad feelings which slavery engenders, that whatever was to be done must be done not only without their aid, hut in defiance of their most stubborn resistance. They loved the slave trade that all England loathed and abhorred- They regarded it as a legitimate and reasonable resource for the supply of labourers whom they killedoff by exhaustion, flogging, and starvation. They not only could not share, but they were unable even to comprehend the feelings of humanity that dictated its suppression. Their position was that of a schoolboy who has been deprived of a pistol with which he has been shooting dogs and cats for amusement. They cried, and cuffed, and struggled to get the weapon back again, and when disappointed, they sulkily and stealthily armed themselves with stones to carry on the sport. Such was the colonial temper. Mr. Brougham's Felony Act went some way to enlighten them as to the deep disgust of the mother country; but though felony is infamous in England, let the offence be what it will, slave trade felony entailed no infamy there; so smuggling was practised unscrupulously, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217686518 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217686516 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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