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Show 10 is sme to come to the attack. On the other part, are found cold prudence, barefaced selfishness, and silent votes. But the nation was aroused to enthusiasm. Ercry horrid fact became known. In 1191, three hundred thousand persons 111 Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all aaticles of island produce. The planters were obliged to give way; and in IS07, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished. The assailants of olavcry had early agreed to limit their political action on this suuject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe, as a matter of conscience, whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, dcclari~ 1g that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law, as the slave-trndc. The trade, under false flags, went on as before. In 1821, according to oflicial documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone. In consequence of the dangers of the trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness, and with u frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport. They carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea. In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of-war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into _the sea. These facts went into Parliament. In the islands, was an ominous state of cruel and licentious society; every house had a dungeon attached to it; every slave was worked by the whip. There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the colonies. The boy was set to strip and to flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence. Looking in the face of his master by the negro was held to be violence by the island 'f ll courts. He was worked sixteen hours, and his ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt her· ring a day. lie suflCrcd insult, stripes, mutilation, at the humor of tl•c master: iron collars were riveted on thci r necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females; aud they were done to death with the most shocking levity between the mnstcr ant.l. manager, without fine or infjuiry. And when, at last, some Quakers, l\Iornvians, and Wesleyan and Baptist ffiJSSiorwnes, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in tl1is, these missionaries were persecuted by the planters, their lives threatened, then· chapels burned, and the negroes furiously foruidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament: a million persons signed their names to these; and in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, minister of the colonies, Introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation. The scheme of the minister, with such modification as it received in the legislature, proposed gradual cmancipalion; that on 1st August, 1834, all persons now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subJect to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions. These conditions were, that the prredials should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the nonprredials for four years. The other f0urth of the apprentice's time was to be his own which he might sell to his master, or to other persons; 'and at the end of the term of years fixed, !10 should be free. With these provisions and conditions, the bill proceeds, in the twelfth section, in the following terms. "Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the lsi August, 1834, |