Excerpt from The Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies: An Address Delivered at Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844 East Indies, had been moved to come and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, In a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were perse outed by the planters, their lives threatened, their chapels burned, and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament: a million persons signed their names to these; and in 1855, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, minister of the colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.