I shall now conclude by saying, that I leave it; and that I recommend it, to others to add to the light which I have endeavoured to furnish on this subject, by collecting new facts relative to Emancipation and the result of it in other parts of the world, as well as relative to the superiority of free over servile labour, in order that the West Indians may be convinced, if possible, that they would be benefited by the change of system which I propose. They must already know, both by past and present experience, that the ways of unrighteousness are not profitable. Let them not doubt, when the Almighty has decreed the balance in favour of virtuous actions, that their efforts under the new system will work together for their good, so that their temporal redemption may be at hand.
THE END.
Footnotes:
[[1]] See Dickson's Mitigation of Slavery, p. 18.
[[2]] See Dickson's Mitigation of Slavery, p. 339.
[[3]] Mitigation of Slavery, p. 50.
[[4]] See Dickson's Mitigation of Slavery, p. 102.
[[5]] A part of the black regiments were bought in Africa as recruits, and were not transported in slave-ships, and, never under West India masters: but it was only a small part compared with the whole number in the three cases.