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STURGE, JOSEPH; and HARVEY, THOMAS. The West Indies in 1837;being the Journal of a Visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Domenica, St. Lucia, Barbadoes and Jamaica, for the Purpose of Ascertaining the Actual Condition of the Negro Population of those Islands. 476 pages. Two large folding maps. 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, expertly recased, retaining the original spine and end-papers; some foxing throughout. Three early bookplates, including the Friends' Library. London, 1838
second edition, "revised and corrected" of this work on the evils of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies during the 1830s. A few weeks before the signing of the Abolition Act of 1833, Parliament established a system of indentured servitude into which former slaves would automatically be placed upon "emancipation." Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, both prominent Quaker anti-slavery activists, were among the system's many vocal opponents. When Lord Brougham complained to Sturge "of the difficulty of obtaining proof of the evils of the apprenticeship system, Sturge quietly remarked, 'Then I must supply thee with proof.'"
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