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Excerpt from Narrative of Voyages and Excursions on the East Coast and in the Interior of Central America: Describing a Journey Up the River San Juan, and Passage Across the Lake of Nicaragua to the City of Leon; Pointing Out the Advantages of a Direct Commercial Intercourse With the Natives; With Notes and Observations
In contemplating the increasin numbers or present state of the Khari es, and descendents of those British slaves who re mained on the Mosquito Shore when the English left it, we are enabled to draw infer ences, very opposite to those of such advo cates for the continuance of slavery, who assert that, under the present West India system, the majority of the slaves are more happ and better provided with the means of so sistence, than they would be if gra dually manumitted, and placed in a state of freedom, dependent only on their own ex ertions; for, it appears that the persons first alluded to, are not only increasing in num bers, but are, b their own industry, amply provided with a l the necessaries, and many of the luxuries of life. 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.
