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The British Emancipation Act, passed in 1834, provided for the liberation of about eight hundred thousand slaves in five years from the passage of the act. The sum appropriated for the compensation of the proprietors was twenty millions of pounds sterling, or not half the value of the slave, and in many instances not a third.
From the date of that act the agricultural produce of the island gradually disappeared, until it became a wilderness in comparison with its former fertility.
The planters never received anything but the interest of the twenty millions; and their once garden like estates have returned, like the negroes, to the freedom of nature.
The island of St. Domingo, before the emancipation of the negroes, produced seven hundred millions pounds of sugar, being more than all the rest of the world put together.
After emancipation, it was compelled to import that article.--Let us hear Napoleon: "Had any of your philosophic Liberals come out to Egypt to proclaim lib