Notes On The Two Reports From The Committee Of The Honourable House Of Assembly Of Jamaica - Softcover

Stephen Fuller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371233275 ISBN 13: 9780371233276

Publisher: HardPress, 2020

Synopsis

Notes On The Two Reports From The Committee Of The Honourable House Of Assembly Of Jamaica: Appointed To Examine Into, And To Report To The House, The Allegations And Charges Contained In The Several Petitions Which Have Been Presented To The British House Of Commons, On The Subject Of The Slave by Stephen Fuller. This 1789 pamphlet presents a polemical critique of two Jamaica House of Assembly Reports concerning the slave trade and the treatment of enslaved Africans. Writing as a Jamaica planter, the author contends that the Assembly’s committee manipulated evidence to shield planters and delay abolition, and provides extensive marginal notes and quotations arguing that the reports misrepresent cruelty and tyranny. The work surveys legislative measures, such as the Consolidated Slave Act and related statutes, and condemns the alleged inadequacy of protections for enslaved people, including issues around trials, punishments, provisioning, gaol deliveries, and manumission provisions. Through a sequence of NOTES on the FIRST and SECOND REPORTS, Fuller challenges reformers to confront systemic brutality and advocates for genuine humane regulation and abolition of the slave trade. The tone is accusatory and reformist, rooted in late-18th-century anti-slavery discourse.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371233275
• ISBN 13: 9780371233276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78