The Anti-Slavery Reporter (Volume 5-6) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... But passing for the present from this particular topic, we have still another apology to make to Lord Sligo, for having confounded, in our want of official information, the two acts respecting apprentices, which were passed by the Jamaica assembly on the 4th July, 1834. One of these had no connexion with the apprentices under the Abolition Act, but only with ordinary apprentices, such as exist in England, France, and elsewhere; and it was over these alone, that jurisdiction was given to the island magistrates. Still there was one very important particular, in which, even over the apprentices under the Abolition Act, a concurrent jurisdiction was given to those magistrates along with the special justices, we mean the appraisement of the value of the apprentices; but to that point as well as to others, we purpose recurring hereafter. Our present object is, to lay before the public a brief analysis of the parliamentary papers of the last session which relate to the "giving effect to the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies." These consist of three bulky volumes thus distinguished: -- 1. Part I. Jamaica, No. 177, ordered to be printed 16th of April, 1835. 2. Part II. Jamaica, Barbadoes, British Guiana, and Mauritius, No. 278--1., ordered to be printed 10th of June, 1835. 3. Part III. Antigua, Montserrat, St. Christopher, Nevis, Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Honduras, Bahamas, Grand Caymanas, Bermuda, and the Cape of Good Hope, No. 278--11., ordered to be printed 10th of June, 183.5. The course we mean to pursue, is to give in the first place, a distinct view of the progress of emancipation in the Colonies, as the same may be deduced exclusively from these official documents; reserving other...