A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. Preparatory to an Appeal About To Be Made by the Author to the Commons of Great Britain, Seeking Redress for Grievances of a Most Serious Tendency, Committed Upon Him, Under the Administration of His Excellency, The Marquis of Sligo, the Late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the Present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, with an Exposure of the Present System of Jamaica Apprenticeship
Published by Printed by J. C. Chappell, London, 1837
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First edition. xii, 282, vii, [1]pp. 8vo. An impassioned appeal by Henry Sterne, resident of St. George, Jamaica, in defense of "apprentices" (i.e. newly-freed slaves following the 1834 emancipation in the West Indies) who have suffered mistreatment, citing detailed legal cases and presenting legal and religious arguments: "The iron yoke of slavery (for apprenticeship is equally as bad, if not worse) still reigns. The lash, dungeons and chains are in constant attendance throughout the land, and will remain so, for near four long years to come" (p. vii). Sabin 91337; not in Cundall Contemporary cloth, black morocco spine label, yellow endpapers.
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- A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. Preparatory to an Appeal About To Be Made by the Author to the Commons of Great Britain, Seeking Redress for Grievances of a Most Serious Tendency, Committed Upon Him, Under the Administration of His Excellency, The Marquis of Sligo, the Late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the Present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, with an Exposure of the Present System of Jamaica Apprenticeship
- Author
- (Jamaica) Sterne, Henry
- Publisher
- Printed by J. C. Chappell, London
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- 1837
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- xii, 282, vii, [1]pp. 8vo
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- First edition.
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James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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