The Right Way the Safe Way / Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere

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PROVED BY
EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, AND ELSEWHERE.
BY L. MARIA CHILD.
The world is beginning to understand, that injuring one class, for the immediate benefit of another, is ultimately injurious to that other; and that to secure prosperity to a community, all interests must be consulted. — Dr. Davy.
NEW YORK: PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE AT 5 BEEKMAN STREET. 1862.

It is a common idea that the British West Indies were a mine of wealth before the abolition of slavery, and since that event have been sinking into ruin. To correct those erroneous impressions, I have carefully collected the following facts from authentic sources:—
Official Reports, returned to the British Parliament, prove that the outcry about ruin in the West Indies began long before the abolition of slavery, and even before the abolition of the slave trade ; and we ought, moreover, never to forget that this outcry related solely to the ruin of the masters ; nobody expended a thought upon the ruin of their 800,000 laborers.