id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044080377930 Chalmers, Thomas, Few thoughts on the abolition of colonial slavery 1826 .txt text/plain 2220 102 66 cheapness, between free and forced labour, is particularly important; and, on the whole, it is fondly object of a full and final emancipation, to tranquillize the natural fears of the slave-holders, and, achievement, this conversion of slaves into freemen; and therefore the more important for its ultimate success, that in every step of its prosecution there should be an even-handed justice to all slave population of the British colonies be 800,000. proprietors, one day's free labour to each slave and forced labour, that an ordinary working slave But, secondly, the slave who idled his free population-an experience, on the part of planters, of the superior advantage of free labour, that emancipation as well as he, and all his labours calm which it is fitted to impart to the now restless and ruffled mind of the slave population-not peace and good order of the colony, and to be than one sixth of the negro population at a time, ./cache/hvd.32044080377930.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044080377930.txt