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Excerpt from A Report of a Committee of the Council of Barbadoes: Appointed to Inquire Into the Actual Condition of the Slaves in This Island, With a View to Refute Calumnies Respecting Their Treatment; And Also to Take Into Consideration Certain Measures Affecting the West Indies, Which Have Been Lately Agitated in The
Calumny can only be repelled by facts. In order to give the stamp Of authenticity to the facts on which'our defence must be founded, we have thought paper to Obtain from His Excel lency the Governor, a Commission authorizing us to examine on'oath all such persons as. We may have Occasion to call before us.
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