[41]. Vide Privy Council Report, Nov. 12th 1788; 2d Report of the House of Assembly of Jamaica.
[42]. Institute schools for their children.
[43]. Why should not a right of giving evidence, with perhaps some other civil distinctions, be granted to any Slaves who have lived creditably in the marriage state, for three or five years. They might think little of these distinctions at first; but accompany them with some outward mark, and they will produce their effect. No distinctions are more impressive, than those which are arbitrary, and the essential nature of which is little understood.
[44]. See the publication of Mr. Canes, a most experienced and benevolent West Indian proprietor.
[45]. Vide Report of the Committee of the House of Assembly of Jamaica, in the Papers presented to the House of Commons.
[46]. See evidence taken before the House of Commons.
[47]. This is fully confirmed by the Assembly of Jamaica. See Privy Council Report.
[48]. These expectations have been just now confirmed by the welcome tidings, that, on the recommendation of the President of the United States, Congress are passing an act for abolishing the Slave Trade on January 1st 1808.
[49]. Vol. ii. p. 442–3.
[50]. Ibid. p. 444.