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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER III
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The few thousand whites of Jamaica will never be able to establish slavery, or any thing like it, over its 300,000 blacks.
Already they are fain to swallow their prejudice against color.

Mr.
Jordon, member for Kingston and "free nigger," was listened to with respect.

Nay more, his argument was copied into the "Protest" which the legislature proudly flung back in the face of Parliament, along with the abolition of the apprenticeship, in return for Lord Glenelg's Bill.

Let all in the United States read and ponder it who assert that "the two races cannot live together on term of equality." Legislative independence of Jamaica has ever been the pride of her English conquerors.

They have received with joy the colored fellow colonists into an equal participation of their valued liberty, and they were prepared to rejoice at the extension of the constitution to the emancipated blacks.


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