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Claims and Resources of the West Indian Colonies; A Letter to the Rt. Hon. W.E Gladstone, M.P., Late Secretary of State for the Colonies Volume 10

Claims and Resources of the West Indian Colonies; A Letter to the Rt. Hon. W.E Gladstone, M.P., Late Secretary of State for the Colonies Volume 10


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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...on the ground, exposed to the tropical sun, and certain to rot within three or four days if not taken off, thereby not merely producing a waste of that which is actually exposed, but spoiling all with which it may subsequently be mixed, to find his labourers either pressing for an increase of wages, and refusing without it to do a stroke of work, or quite as frequently from mere indolence or whim throwing up their employments, and leaving him to gather in his harvest as best he may. Nor is this the worst. In some stages of the sugar-making process, especially that in which the mill is for the first time set going, the combined force of the whole gang generally employed on the estate is required. Instead of that whole force being present, one-half or two-thirds make their appearance at the appointed hour. In the absence of the rest nothing can be done; but it by no means follows that those who may happen to be on the spot should not ask for, and receive, their stipulated reward: and out of sixty men who ought to be in the field, the unfortunate manager has to pay for the forty who are there, at the rate of from Is 6d to 2s per diem, their services in the meanwhile being absolutely lost to him. I do not mention these circumstances as in any manner making against the labourer, who owes nothing to the planter, and has an undoubted right to avail himself of any advantage which accident or British legislation (two terms now nearly synonymous) may have placed in his hands. But when reflecting on a state of society in which such things are of daily occurrence, it is difficult to believe that any sane man--even a philanthropist addressing a public meeting--should seriously have talked of a competition between free and slave labour. But, it is urged, ..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151390905
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151390909
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 77 gr


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