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... MORETON BAY COTTON, PROFITABLE WITHOUT SLAVERY. AN interesting and ingenious report in the Moreton Bay Courier leads almost to the conviction that cotton may be grown at a remuneration in the North of Australia, notwithstanding the high price of labour ...
... as bond slavery, - and alleges that the persons who accept such assisted passages become first slaves and then debtors. Now, it is undeniable, that the emigrants become debtors and bond servants, or slaves, if vou please; but the slavery is not worse ...
... been thrust upon them before in the land of their fathers. That life, at the diggings, they found to be the worst kind of slavery—that the land was everywhere overrun by needy and greedy people like themselves, and that they could not earn a subsistence ...
... such rigour and severity, as if their chief intention was to find by experiment how much contumely and disgrace, how much slavery and oppression, a free people would endure before kicking against authority. It is now no longer a question if the license-tax ...
... there and then embraced—the philanthropic, noble-hearted sister—working, ever working against that horrid slavery of wretchedness and want; a slavery that has its worst negroes ; for how often it makes all black within? Was Mrs. Chisholm ever summoned to ...
... provided 'with situations in respectable families, should they fail to make engagements themselves. Now, in all this—call it slavery or what you like—l can see nothing unfair towards the emigrant, or likely to subjoct him to oppression or tyranny on the part ...
... behalf of other countries, on which we were dependent for the necessaries of life. In such a case we would have all the toil, slavery, and privations, incident to gold-digging, together with the momentary gratification of handling the yellow treasure, but ...
... parties desirous to lure with private employers, at such wages as may be agreed on between the emigrant and his employer, and slavery as it has been styled, thus course is adopted thr oug h ou t a ll t h e civilized world ; but it does NOT COMPEL any emi:trant ...
... unprofitable to the American cotton-planters employing slave labour which would be the most effectual means of abolishing slavery in the United States. Of Port Curtis settlement, I have something more to say. In 1847, the staff of a new penal colony, to ...