NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE AT 5 BEEKMAN STREET.
1862.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | THE WEST INDIES BEFORE THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. | [3] |
| II. | ANTIGUA, AFTER IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL EMANCIPATION. | [12] |
| III. | THE WINDWARD ISLANDS, DURING THE APPRENTICESHIP—TESTIMONY OF PLANTERS IN BARBADOES, IN 1837. | [29] |
| IV. | TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE WEST INDIES, FROM 1840 TO 1859. | [38] |
| V. | JAMAICA. | [54] |
| VI. | EMANCIPATION SAFE IN EVERY INSTANCE. | [86] |
| VII. | CONCLUDING REMARKS. | [94] |
| APPENDIX. | IN WHICH STATEMENTS ARE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE CLOSE OF 1860. | [97] |
CHAPTER I. THE WEST INDIES BEFORE THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
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.