... seven years, or for life—if they are unable to pay their passage home, which it is most probable they never will be in such slavery. The guano is hard, and can only be broken up with pickaxe. It is then broken, and shovelled into waggons, and rolled from ...

... TURAL SOCIETY. the cotton grown by slave labour in the Southern States of America. Independently of the encouragement of slavery, there are other powerful reasons, it is argued in England, why should produce our own cotton. Unfavourable seasons, war, ...