FACTS AND DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE LATE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA, AND THE VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ARISING OUT OF IT.
[London: Teape and Son, Printers, Tower-hill, 1832]. 24pp, caption title (as issued). Untrimmed, uncut gatherings. Very Good plus.
This pamphlet is an eye-witnesses report of attacks on Baptist Missions and Missionaries by armed white gangs opposed to Emancipation. The mobs included British officers and British "Law preservers and Justices of the Peace." The Baptists' encouragement of Emancipation was well-known.
Resentment built among those who concluded that the Missionaries sought to "deprive us of our property." Emancipation "cannot fail to create a servile war of too horrible a nature to contemplate..." Confessions of mob leaders are printed, as are reports of courts martial of slaves, and other contemporary reports.
Ragatz attributes authorship to William Knibb, a resident minister who performed missionary work to the black population. He "proceeded to England to lay their cause before the English public and became a powerful factor in bringing about the passage of the emancipation act in 1833" [Ragatz].
FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 356. Sabin 35577. LCP 3587. Not in Work, Blockson, Dumond, Eberstadt. Item #42357
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