 | M.K. Bacchus - Education - 1990 - 433 pages
...the loss of their property (ie, the slaves) to the amount of £20 million, while the second stated that, "provision should be made for promoting the Industry and securing the good Conduct of the Persons soon to be manumitted."1 It was on the basis of the second provision that the Negro Education... | |
 | Charles Carrington - Great Britain - 1950 - 682 pages
...with the colonies if the sugar-plantations were ruined. It was expedient, in the words of the Act, ' that provision should be made for promoting the industry and securing the good conduct of the persons to be manumitted'. Slaves of working age were therefore to be retained as indentured apprentices... | |
 | Charles Edmund Carrington - 1950 - 584 pages
...with the colonies if the sugar-plantations were ruined. It was expedient, in the words of the Act, 'that provision should be made for promoting the industry and securing the good conduct of the persons to be manumitted'. Slaves of working age were therefore to be retained as indentured apprentices... | |
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... expedient that all such Persons should be manumitted and set free, and that a reasonable Compensation should be made to the Persons hitherto entitled to the services of such Slaves for the Loss which they will incur by being deprived of their Right... 
