Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies

2017-12-16 • 34 sayfa • EN

Yazan Edward Archer

Excerpt from Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies: Upon the Policy of Permitting Emigration From the Continent of India to the Mauritius The right to enforce the obligations contracted by the labourer, endeavoured to do so by means not strictly legal. It must not be forgotten that, at the first introduction of labourers in any considerable numbers, the inhabitants had but just ceased to till their lands by slave labour, and apprentice labour (a compelled one) was in force. If, therefore, there was subject for surprise in any alleged delinquency on the part of the master, it ought rather to have been in the rarity of the instances and in their not very heinous character. 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.