Extracts from Papers printed by Order of the House of Commons, 1839, relative to the west Indies. Arranged under the following heads:- I. Progress of Industry and General Condition of Society since 1st August, 1838. II. State of the Law as it now exists. III. New Laws proposed t meet the New regulation of Society. IV. Administration of Justice. V. Prison regulations , & c. VI. Laws relating to Immigration and Deportation from one Colony to another. VII. Proceedings of the Local Legislatures.
Language: English
Published by London: Printed by William Clowes ad Sons, Stamford Street for Her Majesty's Offic[e]. 1840.
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Seller: Roger J Treglown, ABA., MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA, United KingdomRoger J Treglown, ABA.
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First edition. Format, large octavo, XXXX. Physical description, [1] 2 - 5] vi - xxiii [1] blank, [1] 2- 678 [2]. With a half title. Contents clean and sound. Publishers dark green cloth over boards, sometime rebacked, in lighter green cloth, with the original, repaired, spine laid down the front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of Col. Sir Harold Mitchell; Bt. Overall, a very good plus copy.Slavery was abolished in the Anglophone Caribbean on August 1, 1834. On that date, the enslaved became legally free. However, their freedom was replaced by an “Apprenticeship stystem” in which they wer forced to work for their former masters (owners) for 45 hours, and probably more, a week without payment.
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- Extracts from Papers printed by Order of the House of Commons, 1839, relative to the west Indies. Arranged under the following heads:- I. Progress of Industry and General Condition of Society since 1st August, 1838. II. State of the Law as it now exists. III. New Laws proposed t meet the New regulation of Society. IV. Administration of Justice. V. Prison regulations , & c. VI. Laws relating to Immigration and Deportation from one Colony to another. VII. Proceedings of the Local Legislatures.
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- BY AUTHORITY [HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.]
- Publisher
- London: Printed by William Clowes ad Sons, Stamford Street for Her Majesty's Offic[e]. 1840.
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Roger J Treglown, ABA.
MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA, United Kingdom
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