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John James Geer, Beyond the lines: A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie, Chapter 17: (search)
o those you mean to serve, is not reason, but the plea of all men adverse to abolition. On the 1st of August, 1834, the government of Great Britain emancipated the slaves in all her colonies, of which she had twenty, viz., seventeen in the West Indies, and three in the East Indies. The numerical superiority of the negroes in the West was great. In Jamaica, there were three hundred and thirty-one thousand slaves, and only thirty-seven thousand whites. Even by the clumsy apprenticeship even there they were slight and only temporary. Even the bitterest enemies of abolition have not yet been able to show that a single drop of blood has been shed, or a single plantation destroyed, in consequence of emancipation in all the British West Indies! The journals of Antigua, where the apprenticeship system was not tried, but the stimulus of wages applied at once, say: The great doubt is solved, and the highest hopes of the negro's friends are fulfilled. Thirty thousand men