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CHAPTER XXIII - 1835, 1836

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Thomas Fowell Buxton
Edited by
Charles Buxton
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The best news continued to arrive from the West Indies, of the industry and excellent behaviour of the Negroes, during the period to which the preceding chapter refers. Crime had rapidly diminished; marriages had considerably increased; education and religion were progressing. “The accounts from the West Indies are capital,” writes Mr. Buxton, March 7. 1835, “this puts me into excellent spirits. The truth is, my spirits rise or fall according to the intelligence from that quarter.”

To his Sister, Miss Buxton, Northrepps Cottage.

“House of Commons, March 16. 1835.“

“I must give you a taste of the good news which I have received within this hour. Lord Aberdeen said yesterday, that every thing was going on marvellously well in the West Indies. The Negroes quiet, dutiful, diligent. It is quite amazing, it is contrary to reason, it cannot be accounted for, but so it is! Just now Stanley came over to me, saying, he had a letter from Lord Sligo to-day, dated the 29th January. He read me the greater part of it, and most gratifying it was.

The Christmas holidays had gone off more quietly than for many years. No case of riot had been reported, and the Negroes had all returned to their work in good humour. The produce of the crop sent to England would be a good average one. Lord Sligo had recalled all his troops and vessels (which had gone out to quell possible disturbances), because everything was perfectly quiet. […] ”

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
With Selections from his Correspondence
 , pp. 374 - 393
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1848

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