Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 250
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can only cause annoyance, and send home long dismal accounts of real or imaginary grievances on those whom it is their interest to represent as oppressed in every way. Of this we have had many instances, but the most remarkable is that of Bermuda. From one end of England to the other certain philanthropists, in speeches and in writing, exclaimed against the planters in the West Indies, charging them distinctly with the most barbarous acts of cruelty towards their slaves. They even specified the cruel acts perpetrated, and this too as if an Englishman changed his very nature when arriving in a colony. I have consulted the "Report of the Privy Council on the Slave Trade Part III" wherein I find a complete refutation of the foul charges made, not on the part of Slaveowners themselves, but in the conduct of the negro slaves. The report says
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