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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER III
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The Governor's speech respecting women has done a great deal of harm.

None of the women want to work.

If Lord Glenelg had made such a mistake, he would have heard enough of it.

I wish the Government would take it on themselves to settle the rate of wages, otherwise two-thirds of the estates will be thrown up before next year; of course I can stand this as well as any.
The -- -- people have behaved well: they did every thing I told them; they are working on piece-work, which is the best plan." Precisely similar is the testimony of private correspondents and of the public press so far as we have been able to learn, in all the other colonies where emancipation has taken place.

There is certainly nothing in all this that indicates a disposition on the part of the emancipated to throw off the employment of their former masters, but much the reverse.


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