Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the Brutush Colonies: With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter MeasureR. Taylor, 1823 - 60 páginas |
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Página 17 - In process of time, having embraced Christianity, they raised places of worship of their own, and had ministers of their own from their own body. They led a harmless life, and gained the character of an industrious and honest people from their white neighbours.
Página 47 - ... other human beings, were to be stimulated to permanent exertion only by a sense of their own interests, in providing for their own wants and those of their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the industry he had excited among his whole gang enabled him to pay. — Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His people became contented ; his mind was freed from that...
Página 25 - ... refused to work : and yet this plantation was thought to be under the worst discipline and the slaves the most idle of any in the plain. I inspired the same activity into three other plantations of which I had the management.
Página 12 - Hill,) began the horrid practice of forcing the Africans into slavery, an injustice and barbarity, which, so sure as there is vengeance in Heaven for the worst of crimes, will sometime be the destruction of all who encourage it.
Página 36 - ... punctually paid them in proportion to their performance. But afterwards some of the same people being put without premium to weed on a loose cultivated soil in the common manner, eighteen Negroes did not do as much in a given time as six had performed of the like sort of work a few days before with the premium of two-pence half-penny.
Página 17 - ... understood the use of arms. The Government, however, persevering in its original intention, they were conveyed to Halifax, and distributed from thence into the country. Their number, comprehending men, women, and children, were two thousand and upwards. To gain their livelihood, some of them worked upon little portions of land of their own ; others worked as carpenters ; others became fishermen ; and others worked for hire in other ways. In process of time...
Página 47 - ... mind was freed from that perpetual vexation, and that load of anxiety, which are inseparable from the vulgar system, and in little more than four years the annual net clearance of his property was more than tripled." Again in another part of the work, " Mr. Steele's plan may no doubt receive some improvements, which his great age obliged him to decline " — " but it is perfect as far as it goes.
Página 25 - There were estates," he says, " which had neither owners nor managers resident upon them, yet upon these estates, though abandoned, the negroes continued their labors where there were any, even inferior, agents to guide them; and on those estates where no white men were left to direct them, they betook themselves to the planting of provisions; but upon all the plantations where the whites resided the blacks continued to labor as quietly as before.
Página 27 - was flourishing under Toussaint. The Whites lived happily and in peace upon their estates, and the Negroes continued to work for them.
Página 12 - History, expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent, declaring, " that it would be detestable and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers.