The English system looks to confining the women of the world to the labours of the field, and such is its effect everywhere. It looks, therefore, to debasing and enslaving them and their children. The other looks to their emancipation from slavery, and their elevation in the social scale; and it can scarcely fail to be regarded by the women as well as by the men of England as a matter of duty to inquire into the grounds upon which their policy is based, and to satisfy themselves if it can be possible that there is any truth in a system which tends everywhere to the production of slavery, and therefore to the maintenance of the slave trade throughout the world.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Edwards' West Indies, vol. i. p. 255.
[2] Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iii. 575.
[3] Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, vol. iv. 155.
[4] Martin's Colonial Library, West Indies, vol. i. 90.
[5] Macpherson, vol. iv. 155.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Montgomery's West Indies, vol. ii. 114
[8] Macpherson, vol. iv. 155, 228.