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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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
