id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044080378227 Heyrick, Elizabeth, Immediate, not gradual abolition, or, An inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery 1824 .txt text/plain 7307 332 58 by the Government of this country—but Slavery is still perpetuated in our West India colonies, and the horrors of the Slave to the friends of emancipation, or of perpetual slavery? right of the slave, and the interest of the planter, are distinct questions ; they belong to separate departments, 'to different provinces of consideration. " But, (it will be objected) it is not an immediate, but a gradual emancipation, which the most enlightened and judicious of West Indian slavery, would produce such a general insurrection of sympathetic and indignant feeling; such abhorrence gradual emancipation, the prince of slave holders, " transformed himself, with astonishing dexterity, into an angel of It is no marvel that slave holders, should cry out against immediate emancipation, as they have done against all propositions gradual emancipation,-let them remember, that the miseries more just and humane,--than gradual emancipation. If the great work of emancipation be not now accomplished, ./cache/hvd.32044080378227.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044080378227.txt