Lecture Delivered Before the Young Mens Library Association of Augusta April
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The absolute failure of this experiment to place the Negro and white man upon an equal footing, induced the British Philan- thropists to proceed on another plan. Historians and Philoso- phers had condemned the French attempt as sudden and ill- conducted. The English, therefore, determined to try their experiment in Jamaica, upon a more just and gradual system. The owner of the slave was to receive compensation, and the slave himself to pass through an apprenticeship of training for his new cond...ition. The wisest and best men of England tho- roughly digested their scheme; and the military and naval powers of a great empire were put in requisition to carry it out. The horrors of St. Domingo have indeed been saved; but deso- lation and ruin have nevertheless followed. Jamaica, like St.
m^m^@ji 20 Domingo, now exhibits abandoned fields and ruined houses. Her commerce has shrunk away — her white population is daily disappearing^, and even the English fathers of the scheme have been compelled to acknowledge that, the Negro himself has been the greatest sufferer from its failure.
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The absolute failure of this experiment to place the Negro and white man upon an equal footing, induced the British Philan- thropists to proceed on another plan. Historians and Philoso- phers had condemned the French attempt as sudden and ill- conducted. The English, therefore, determined to try their experiment in Jamaica, upon a more just and gradual system. The owner of the slave was to receive compensation, and the slave himself to pass through an apprenticeship of training for his new cond...ition. The wisest and best men of England tho- roughly digested their scheme; and the military and naval powers of a great empire were put in requisition to carry it out. The horrors of St. Domingo have indeed been saved; but deso- lation and ruin have nevertheless followed. Jamaica, like St.
m^m^@ji 20 Domingo, now exhibits abandoned fields and ruined houses. Her commerce has shrunk away — her white population is daily disappearing^, and even the English fathers of the scheme have been compelled to acknowledge that, the Negro himself has been the greatest sufferer from its failure.
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