The Colonial Controversy
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ISBN13: 9780217072267
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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: COLONIAL CONTROVERSY. Nos. XV.?XVI. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. To the Bight Honourable the Earl of Liverpool. My Lord, The inability of the anticolonists to make any thing of Africans, whom they choose to denominate emancipated Africans, and their incapacity to govern, or improve the savage, has been strongly exemplified in Sierra Leonj. Nor is it there alone, or with the peculiar system which they have there established, that they have been foiled. They were equally unsuccessful in governing and attempting to improve slaves. Yes, slaves They try Negroes in every way. In every way they are unsuccessful. About the year 1811, some valuable Sugar and Coffee Estates, and a considerable number of artisan Negroes, in British Guiana, the property of the Crown, from the right of conquest, were intrusted to a Commission, viz.?The Right Hon. N. Vansittart, the Right Hon. C. Long, paymaster of the forces, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Stephen, Mr. Wilberforce, and Mr. W. Smith, to instruct, enlighten, and improve the slaves, and to increase the crops by a new and philanthropic mode of ruling the former. This commission chose Mr. Macaulay as their Secretary; and what was better, the Consignee. To him all the crops were consigned. By him all the supplies were shipped; and to increase, as was conjectured, all these, the customary and more judicious mode of purchasing supplies in the Colony, was in a great measure relinquished; all the supplies were imported from Europe; all the crops exported to it, and in such vessels as Mr. Macaulay owned or appointed. Independent of the Commissions, and of the cheese parings andcandle ends as Consignee, Mr. Macanlay charged, and the Commissioners allowed him 300 sterling, per annum, for the salaries of Clerks and the rent of a counting-house?expe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217072267 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217072267 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 146 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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