[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 263/620
The good sense of the mass gives me reason to hope that idleness will be the exception, not the rule." The Barbadian of NOV.
28, remarks, that of six districts in Demerara whose condition had been reported, _five_ were working favorably.
In the sixth the laborers were standing out for higher wages. TRINIDAD. In the _Jamaica Morning Journal_ of Oct.
2d and 15th, we find the following paragraphs in relation to this colony: "Trinidad .-- The reports from the various districts as to the conduct of our laboring population, are as various and opposite, the Standard says, to each other as it is possible for them to be.
There are many of the Estates on which the laborers had at first gone on steadily to work which now have scarcely a hand upon them, whilst upon others they muster a greater force than they could before command.
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