These defects have been exposed in a former chapter, and we need not repeat them here.
The reason why the system has not produced as much mischief in all the colonies as it has in Jamaica, is that the local circumstances in the other islands were not so adapted to develop its legitimate results.
It is not without the most careful investigation of facts, that we have allowed ourselves to entertain the views which we are now about to express, respecting the conduct of the planters and special justices--for it is to _them_ that we must ascribe the evils which exist in Jamaica.

We cheerfully accede to them all of palliation which may be found in the provocations incident to the wretched system of apprenticeship.
The causes of the difficulties rest chiefly with the _planters_.

They were _originally_ implicated, and by their wily schemes they soon involved the special magistrates.

The Jamaica planters, as a body, always violently opposed the abolition of slavery.

Unlike the planters in most of the colonies, they cherished their hostility _after the act of abolition_.