What is the prospect for 1840 ?--for 1838?
This question is answered I hope satisfactorily above.

On the termination of the two periods no evil is to be reasonably anticipated, with the exception of a few days' idleness.
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Are the planters generally satisfied with the apprenticeship, or would they return back to the old system?
The whole body of respectable planters are fully satisfied with the apprenticeship, and would not go back to the old system on any account whatever.

A few young managers, whose opinions are utterly worthless, would perhaps have no objection to be put again into their puny authority.
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Do you think it would have been dangerous for the slaves in this island to have been entirely emancipated in 1834?
I do not think it would have been productive of danger, had the slaves of this island been fully emancipated in 1834; which is proved by what has taken place in another colony.
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