Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence: Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House, to Whom it was Referred to Consider of the Slave-trade1789 - 409 páginas |
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Página 1 - Minutes of Evidence, taken before the Committee of the whole House, to whom it was referred to consider of the several Petitions which have been presented to the House in this Session of Parliament relating to Orders in Council.
Página 37 - He has seen the slaves drawing their breath with all those laborious and anxious efforts for life, which are observed in expiring animals, subjected by experiment to foul air, or in the exhausted receiver of an air pump. He has also seen them, when the tarpaulings have inadvertently been thrown over the gratings, attempting to heave them up, crying out in their own language,
Página 53 - He repeated the flogging for four days together at mess time. The last time after flogging it, he let it drop out of his hand, with the same expression as before, and accordingly in about three quarters of an hour the child died. He then called its mother to heave it overboard, and beat her for refusing. He however forced...
Página 64 - Tottenham expostulated with her, but in vain. They were taken out to the public parade, and he had the curiosity to go with them. The Jumper carried a long whip like our waggoners. He ordered one of the women to turn her back, and to take up her clothes entirely, and he gave her a dozen on the breech.
Página 130 - Indian mode, and consolidating the distilleries, I do suppose our sugar-islands might be better worked than they now are by two-thirds or indeed one-half of the present force.
Página 37 - He has known many after such whipping sent to the field under a guard and worked all day, with no food but what their friends might give them, out of their own poor pittance. He has known them returned to the stocks at night, and worked next day successively. This cruel whipping, hard working, and starving has, to his knowledge, made many commit suicide. He...
Página 53 - So little care was taken of infants, that mothers deemed it a misfortune to have children. After the month, they were fent...
Página 59 - Having travelled all day, they came to a small river, when he was told they had but a little way farther to go. Having crossed the river, they stopped till dark. Here Mr. Bowman (it was about the middle of the night) was afraid to go farther, and prevailed on the king's son to leave him a guard...
Página 129 - ... one boiling, then fprinkled with two buckets of water to fubfide its foul parts ; after {landing fix hours, it is let off by three pegs of different heights into a fingle copper with one fire. It is there tempered again boiled up and reduced to fugar, by a gentle fire. It granulates, and the fugar boiler dipping a wand into the copper ftrikes it on the fide, then drops the fugar remaining on it into a cup of water, fcrapes it up with his thumb nail, and is by this means able...