Excerpt from An Address on West India Emancipation: Delivered on the First of August, 1838, Before the Union Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia The great crime of this island, as indeed of all the West India colonies, has been licentiousness, but we are certainly fast im proving in this Before the deed of emancipation, mothers often sold their daughters to those who could give the highest price for them. The buyer was generally a manager or overseer. Now the mother is desirous to obtain a'marriage set tlement for her ...
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Excerpt from An Address on West India Emancipation: Delivered on the First of August, 1838, Before the Union Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia The great crime of this island, as indeed of all the West India colonies, has been licentiousness, but we are certainly fast im proving in this Before the deed of emancipation, mothers often sold their daughters to those who could give the highest price for them. The buyer was generally a manager or overseer. Now the mother is desirous to obtain a'marriage set tlement for her daughters. The planters in the island were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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