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    a-gce ^ cl to , the slaves should be considered as treed ,, and they should only b ^ restrained from the full exercise of freedom by tpose Pjieans which are evidently conducive to their own interest . It would most likely be a mischievous thing to turn loose in a single 4 ay a whole population of slaves . Their gambols would be

    rather unwieldy , and perhaps mischievous ; but how must it be arranged , lp decide which should be freed first ? Reason would point to the aged , because the older the slave is , the less tipe has ne for enjoyment . The glaring defect of Mr . Stanley ' s apprentice scheme is , that the old men may be dead before they can reap any benefit from it , which is a great hardship . I would propose

    then tfcat all field negro slaves above the age of forty-five should at once be set free , and that five years should be the maximum of restraint upon the remainder , but all should be freed as fast as thpy attained the age of forty-five years . In addition to these , there would be no harm resulting from at once setting free all slaves above the age of twenty-one years , who may have been

    broyght up to mechanical trades , or to domestic service , because the fact of having been so brought up , implies a superior power of intellect , and the consequent possession of forethought . The remaining slaves should then be obliged to work for wages , if any means short of the whip could be found , and the experiment would be fairly tried , whether they would be voluntarily

    industrious or not . The wages they might earn ^ should have a portion deducted from them as a tax for the expenses of government , and above all , schools ; and the labour of the free slaves might also be taxed , through the agency of those who might employ them . As an additional inducement to labour , Savings' Banks might be established for the receipt of their earnings , and those who might

    accumulate money the most rapidly , should thereby hasten the terra of their manumission , and this upon a graduated scale . By this process the actual state of the negro intellect might be ascertained and classified . Probably the best persons to fill the offices of teachers and local magistrates , would be the missionary preachers , simply from the fact that they have gained the confidence of the

    negroes , by suffering persecution in their cause . 1 confess that my knowledge of the negro character , so far as I have had the opportunity of observing it , does not lead me to expect much from the naass in the way of forethought , but the means 1 have stated seem to be the most likely to draw it forth , if it exists in any quantity . The present mode of apprenticeship places emancipation at such

    qn indefinite period , so far as negro intellect is concerned , that I mqch fe # r the apparent giving , and real withholding of freedom , will be misunderstood by the negroes , that they will fancy the King has given them freedom , which their masters unjustly withhold . They will in consequence refuse to work , as in , the case of the former insurrection , and all will break forth ia broil , perchance to terminate in a , more fearful result . Mais nova verrona .

    June 12 , 1833 . Junius Redivivvsu

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/34/