Some hyphens in words have been silently removed (e.g., “West India” and “West Indian”) and added (e.g., “sugar-plantation” and “sugar-estate”), when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings and inconsistent or archaic usage in the text have been retained.
[Page 3]: “particular acts ema nate” replaced by “particular acts emanate”
[Page 63]: “announce to theslaves” replaced by “announce to the slaves”