A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies; Or, an Examination of Mr. Stephen's Slavery of the British West India Colonies.": Containing More Particularly an Account of the Actual Condition of the Negroes in Jamaica ."

Barclay Barclay

ISBN 10: 0371445981 / ISBN 13: 9780371445983

Published by HardPress Ltd, 2019

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• Title: A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies; Or, an Examination of Mr. Stephen's Slavery of the British West India Colonies.": Containing More Particularly an Account of the Actual Condition of the Negroes in Jamaica ."
• Publisher: HardPress Ltd
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371445981
• ISBN 13: 9780371445983
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 781 grams

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A Practical View Of The Present State Of Slavery In The West Indies; Or, An Examination Of Mr. Stephen's Slavery Of The British West India Colonies.": Containing More Particularly An Account Of The Actual Condition Of The Negroes In Jamaica, by Alexander Barclay. The work is a mid-19th-century polemical defense of Jamaica's slave system, seeking to rebut abolitionist criticisms and defend registry, manumission rules, and gradual emancipation. It blends documentary evidence of slave life—housing, work routines, religion, and family life—with a detailed legal argument that policing, runaways, and punishment are necessary for order, property, and peace. The volume also presents the Consolidated Slave Law (1826) with marginal notes and commentary, outlining reforms on religion, marriage, personal property, manumission, and welfare, and describing formal trial procedures, slave courts, and workhouses. Overall, it frames slavery as a regulated, economically vital system tempered by legal safeguards and gradual reform, opposed to sudden abolition.