Facts Proving The Good Conduct And Prosperity Of Emancipated Negroes And Remarks On Melioration

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Download or read book Facts Proving the Good Conduct and Prosperity of Emancipated Negroes (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Facts Proving the Good Conduct and Prosperity of Emancipated Negroes Colonel Malenfant says that when many of his neighbours, proprietors or managers, were in prison, the negroes of their plantation came to him to beg him to direct them in their work. "If you will take care not to talk to them of the restoration of slavery but talk to them of freedom, you may with this word chain them down to their labour. How did Toussaint succeed? - How did I succeed before his time in the plain of the Culde-Sae on the plantation Gouraud, during more than eight months after liberty had been granted to the slaves? Let those who knew me at that time, let the blacks themselves be asked: they will all reply that not a single negro upon that plantation, consisting of more than 450 labourers, refused to work: and yet this plantation was thought to be under the worst discipline and the slaves the most idle of any in the plain. I inspired the same activity into three other plantations of which I had the management. If all the negroes had come from Africa within six months, if they had the love of independence that the Indians have I should own that force must be employed; but 99 out of a hundred of the blacks are aware that without labour they cannot procure the things that are necessary for them; that there is no other method of satisfying their wants and their tastes. They know that they must work, they wish to do so, and they will do so. Such was the conduct of the negroes for the first nine months after their liberation, or up to the middle of 1794. In the latter part of 1796 Malenfant says "The colony was flourishing under Toussaint, the whites lived happily and in peace upon their estates, and the negroes continued to work for them." General Leewix who published his "Memoirs for a History of St. Domingo" in 1819, says that in 1797 the most wonderful progress had been made in agriculture. "The Colony" says he "marched as by enchantment towards its ancient splendor: cultivation prospered; every day produced perceptible proof of its progress." 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.