Postscript To The Reply Point By Point: Containing An Exposure Of The Misrepresentation Of The Treatment Of The Captured Negroes At Sierra Leone (1815)
Postscript To The Reply Point By Point: Containing An Exposure Of The Misrepresentation Of The Treatment Of The Captured Negroes At Sierra Leone (1815)
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. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... culture, and often apprenticed to the most worthless. Again. "The masters and mistresses shall co"venant to provide the apprentices with comfort"able food, clothing1, and other necessaries, and not "to treat them with severity." This was not enforced; for when I arrived in the Colon)', in June 1811, the ...
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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. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... culture, and often apprenticed to the most worthless. Again. "The masters and mistresses shall co"venant to provide the apprentices with comfort"able food, clothing1, and other necessaries, and not "to treat them with severity." This was not enforced; for when I arrived in the Colon)', in June 1811, the apprentices, male and female, were in a state of nudity, the Collector (Mr. Macauley) did not prevent this barbarity. 1 obliged the masters and mistresses to provide some covering for their Apprentices when they were sent into the street; and I preserved them from continued and severe chastisement, by directing criminal prosecutions, when such abuses came to my knowledge. The officers, faithless to their trust, disregarded the Negroes' sufferings. THE ORDERS DIRECT. "To have them instructed in the specified trade "or employment, and in the Christian Religion, "and to be baptised, and to attend public worship, "and to have the apprentice produced for inspec"tion; and if these stipulations were not complied "with, the term of apprenticeship to cease." Very few of them were instructed in any trade, but none in the Christian Religion; they did not attend public worship, nor were they baptised.' FURTHER DIRECTIONS. "The Collector annually to transmit to the Se"cretary of State, an accurate account, specifying "the number, names, sexes, and ages received by "him, enlisted, apprenticed, or otherwise disposed "of; the names, descriptions, and places of abode "of their masters or mistresses, and the stale and "condition of the apprentice." If this has been complied with, I make no doubt the Directors will obtain the Reports directed to be made every 31st of December, to prove they are not conniving at the neglect. From those regular returns, we shall...
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