[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 CHAPTER III 209/620
Let it be borne in mind that these shameful and exorbitant demands are not made, as in England, on the head of the family only, but on _every member who is able to do the least work_, and even little children have papers demanding 2s.4d.per week for ground, although unable to do the least thing: one of these I also enclose. Jamaica, ss.
Notice is hereby Given, That the sum of eight shillings and four pence, weekly, will be exacted from you and each of you respectively, for the houses and grounds at Orchard Estate, in the parish of Hanover, from August of the present year, until the expiration of the three months' notice, from its period of service to quit; or to the period of surrendering to me the peaceable possession of the aforesaid house and provision grounds. J.R.
BOWEN. Dated this 17th day of Sep.
1838. TO JAMES DARLING and SARAH DARLING, of the parish of HANOVER. Here then, my dear Sir, you may perceive something of the atrocious proceedings in the island of Jamaica.
Pray insert these documents in the _Emancipator_.
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