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WREST INDIES CRITIQUE OF SLAVERY AND MISSIONARY VIEWS
A letter from 1841 recounts the West Indies slave system with stark critique. It highlights slave polygamy, rampant drunkenness, and families torn apart by sales. describes white masters as moral equals to slaves. notes mutiny rumors and estate trials encountered by missionaries. Also includes Ireland’s Cork unrest and opinions on taxation, governance, and Catholic-Protestant tensions amid revolutionary sentiment.
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Wrest Indies
Shofield Tris
West Indies
England
Africa
Mr. G
Massa
Bungy
Mr G
Council
Assembly
Théda
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