[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 268/620
Clarke of the 1st West-India Regiment, and Government Secretary, Lieut.
Mould of the Royal Engineers, and Lieut.
Costabodie of the 70th, together with twenty men of the 70th, and 20 of the 1st West India, embarked, to be conveyed by water to the scene of insubordination.' "'We have not learnt the reception this force met with, from the laborers, but the results of the visit paid them were, that yesterday, there were at work, on four estates, none: on eleven others, 287 in all, and on another all except three, who are in the hands of the magistrates.
On one of the above properties, the great gang was, on Friday last, represented in the cane-piece by one old woman!'" "'The presence of the soldiers has had, it will be seen, some effect, yet still the prospects are far from encouraging; a system of stock plundering, &c.
is prevalent to a fearful degree, some gentlemen and the industrious laborers having had their fowls, &c.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|