Observations on the Evidence Given Before the Committees of the Privy Council and House of Commons in Support of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1791 Excerpt: ...; Mr. Ramfay fays, "that when he fettled in St. Kitt's in 1762, the flaves were fb fpa± "ringly fed, that they were unequal to their ' work, which rendered frequent fupplies "from the flave market nedeflary; wherevef they were a little more plentifully fed, they "were found able not only to do their own "work with eafe, but to affift-their neigh"hours and (in the very next line) that "their ordinary work hardly allows of an "longer refpite than four or five hours hi the twenty-four."' '--H: Obf. We all know that labour may be iricreafed in fome proportion to diet: but if the ordinary work of the negroes in St. Kitt's al lowed at moft only five hours reft in the twerity-four, how is it poflible that a little better feeding fhould enable them to do their own work with eafe, and even help their neigh bours? Suppofe them by being.a little better fed to gain an hour or an hour and a half in the day's work, their reft (according to Mr. Ramfay) would then not exceed fix hours and Qi I there ever fufficient light to work in the fields more than fixteen hours? or even flxteen hours? Do the ilaves ever work in the night except in crop a half Governor Seton fays, « that the common (Duration' f of negroes Hves may he denned 3 fifty ypv" and obferves, "thg.t warm climbs re apt fo (cpe4p(y've 9, « long life as the colder climates." Ij'riv. Co. Rep. part 3,.tit» St. Viftceni, No. 3=r--Mr. Brathwaite takes the general period of their lives tp he from' fty to fixty. Pciy» Co. Rep» part 3,' tit. Barbpfs, Iq. 13. And Bofman, who ififided fonie years ifi. Affic/i, fcys, moft of the negroes live healthfu, h.ut reldpm. #. arrive to a great age, a man of fifty (a good old age "here) Jfcized by any fieknefs, generally leaves the P. 95. at the fa...

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