Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the Great Anti-Slavery Meeting, Held at the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Wednesday, October 14th, 1835: With an Appendix, Containing the Notices of Condition of the Apprenticed Labourers in the West Indies, Under the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies I. That it is the conviction of this Meeting, that in the Act for the Abolition of Slavery, which passed the British Legislature in 1833, those parts of it which continued a system of coerced labour under the name of Apprenticeship, and which awarded the enormous sum of sterling as a compensation to the Slave-proprietors, would never have been agreed to, but on the solemn and reiterated assurance of the framers of this measure, that the one branch of the enactment was necessary to promote the industry and good conduct of the Negroes, and the other to secure the cordial co-operation of the Planters in the work of 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.