Some Account of the State of Slavery at Mauritius: Since the British Occupation, in 1810 : in Refutation of Anonymous Charges Promulgated Against Government and that Colony ...J. Ridgway, 1830 - 265 pages |
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Some Account of the State of Slavery at Mauritius: Since the British ... Charles Telfair Affichage du livre entier - 1830 |
Some Account of the State of Slavery at Mauritius: Since the British ... Charles Telfair Affichage du livre entier - 1830 |
Some Account of the state of Slavery at Mauritius since the British ... Charles TELFAIR Affichage du livre entier - 1830 |
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Page xvii - ... made to change places with the offender. The instrument with which the punishment of flogging was inflicted, consisted either of a whip or of the split rattan , and opinions greatly differ as to which of these was the most cruel. The whip varied in size. Its handle was of wood, from two to three feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter ; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and, at the thickest part, from one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half inches in diameter,...
Page xvii - Louis, the annual rate of mortality was 1094, being little less than four times that of the free population of the colony. And supposing the same rate of mortality to extend over the whole slave population of the island, we shall have, as the result, not less than about 7000 deaths annually, or about 126,000 deaths in the 18 years we have possessed the island ; a mortality nearly equal to killing off the whole of the slaves existing at any one time twice told ; a number equal to which must have been...
Page xvii - ... nineteen hours in the day, even out of crop. No time was allowed them for breakfast,* the eating of a manioc cake requiring no respite from work. For dinner the slaves had nominally two hours allowed them, but in this time they had to cut a bundle of grass or wood for the master, which, on leaving off work at night, they had to deliver at his house. This wood or grass was frequently difficult to be obtained, and a large proportion of the two hours was, therefore, often spent in obtaining it,...
Page 45 - ... at three in the morning, sometimes earlier, but seldom later, and they continued to work, without any interval for breakfast, and with only the interval already described for dinner, until so late in the evening as eight o'clock, and, on light nights, even an hour or two later. While the slaves were at work, they were followed by drivers, and were continually receiving blows and lashes, and were even occasionally taken out from the line and punished with twenty or thirty lashes, and then sent...
Page 74 - Progress of Population in the Mauritius. ' We shall begin with an attempt, though it must of necessity be an imperfect one, to ascertain the probable extent of the destruction of human life which has been regularly proceeding in this colony. We might here produce the testimony of numerous living witnesses ; but this, though strong and decisive, would necessarily be too vague for our purpose. At present, therefore, we shall confine ourselves to the less disputable evidence of statistical returns.
Page 67 - ... the island, as well as to Bel Ombre. On some the slaves might be better off in one or more particulars, and on some they might be worse off. But the sketch now given may be considered as a fair representation of what was the ordinary, every-day, treatment of the slaves, on those estates which Sir R. Farquhar might designate as well regulated. This treatment, however, was wholly independent of those more exemplary inflictions of punishment which occurred from time to time, and which, though not...
Page xvii - We shall begin with an attempt, though it must of necessity be an imperfect one, to ascertain the probable extent of the destruction of human life which has been regularly proceeding in this colony. We might here produce the testimony of numerous living witnesses, but this, though strong and decisive, would necessarily be too vague for our purpose. At present therefore we shall confine ourselves to the less disputable evidence of statistical returns. By a report from Sir Robert Barclay, the collector...
Page xvii - ... into the wounds, which it was alleged would prevent them from festering, and enable the sufferers the sooner both to return to labour, and to bear a repetition of punishment, if it should be thought right to inflict it. The pain of this application is described as excruciating. The same person states that, in the month of July, 1820, being on a plantation, he saw two slaves brought out to be punished. They were placed flat on their bellies, extended on a wooden beam, to which they were fastened,...
Page xvii - ... and then sent back to work. But these occasional inflictions were scarcely regarded in the light of punishment, but merely of discipline. The regular punishments were reserved, on Bel Ombre, (a practice however, differing from that of many other estates,) for Sunday, a day which, there, never failed to be ushered in with severe floggings. The offenders of the week were reserved in chains (in which they were made to work) for that day ; and they were often numerous, generally about thirty, and...
Page xvii - ... it was considered as the fruitful source, combined with their hard labour, of those dysenteries which were constantly sweeping so many of them into- a premature grave. ' The daily labour exacted from them extended to from sixteen to nineteen hours in the day, even out of crop. No time was allowed them for breakfast,* the eating of a manioc cake requiring no respite from work. For dinner the slaves had nominally two hours allowed them ; but, in this time, they had to cut a bundle of grass or •wood...