Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... THE JAMAICA REBELLION, OR NEGRO INSURRECTION. After an attentive perusal of the foregoing sheets, our reader will be pretty well acquainted with the negro character, the feelings that being must have imbibed from passing events, his numerous incitements to attempt a change in his state, and the probable means he would adopt for its accomplishment. I shall have witnessed all the scenes to very little purpose, and also here furnished a most imperfect description of the various circumstances requisite for the reader's introduction to the subject, if he is not by this time tolerably qualified to judge for himself, of the facts he will find faithfully recorded. Without further comment, therefore, and to avoid carrying him too far back, we commence our general remarks, from about the year 1830, by stating that, at this period, it was extremely natural to suppose the numerous petulent discussions that were daily carried on, not only in the British parliament, but in private society at home and abroad on the subject of slavery and emancipation, would cause the negro mind, (continually prone to receive erroneous impressions, on all questions where their condition happened to be embraced, ) to become more and more unsettled, and the individuals themselves to evince their dissatisfaction. Indeed, such a state of feeling created no surprise to the resident community, as it was generally understood that many of them, through the indulgence and zeal of their proprietors, having received sufficient education to admit of their perusing the newspapers, had become capable of subsequently discussing the merits or demerits of the subjects expatiated on by the different members of parliament. On almost every property there was a Wilberforce, a Stephen, a..
