Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions: Collected From Various Authors, and Submitted to the Serious Consideration of All, More Especially of Those in Power
A confiderate young perfon who was late in one of our Weal} India illlands, where he obferved the mife fable fituation of the Negroes, makes the following re. Marks, I meet with daily exercife, to fee the treatment which thefe miferable Wretches meet with from their matters, with but few exceptions. They whip them moii unmercitully, on (mall occafions They beat them With thick clubs, and you W1llfee their bodies all whaled and learred; in lhort, they feem to fet no other value on their lives than as they coft them fo mtich money and are. Not refirained from kill-u ing thena, when angry, by a worthier confideration than that they lofe to much. They act as tho' they did not look upon them as a race of human crea tuies, who have reafon, and remembrance of mil?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
