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Excerpt from The Jamaica Movement, for Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-Trade Treaties, and the Suppression of the Slave-Trade: With Statements of Fact, Convention, and Law; Prepared at the Request of the Kingston Committee
When the public mind has been prepared, by a long course of events, to view any given subject in a particular light, it requires but a trifling circumstance, something which, in common parlance, would be called an accident, to rouse it from a state of apparent lethargy, and impart to it a vigorous, or even vehement action. It was the interruption of a dinner party, in the beginning of the last year, which overthrew a dynasty, and, by a series of revolutionary movements, shook to their foundations the most ancient thrones in Europe. And, to compare great things with small, it was the success of a dinner party, on a narrower scale, which, although it met with no interruption, has happily led to the great moral, social, and economical movement, which it is the business of these pages to record. Nor are our present proceedings to be undervalued because of their humble and modest origin. In the end, if followed up with suitable energy, near the great centres of civilisation and progress, the results may prove more important, more permanent, and more beneficial to the great family of man kind, than the mightiest of those political eruptions. 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.
