Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-07-20
SLAVERY IN ENGLISH INDIA.
lsy Nmbs,. nj slorss

lsi Number ot siares.
The number Of slaves in English Ldio
is generally estimated at several millions
HAMILTON, Doctor BUCHANAN aud
he Rev. MIR. MALcoM, consider the Pa
riahs, the Baluns, the Sehcriius, the
Totes, the Juda and other Indian castles,
as perpetual and true siapes, and estimate
them at more than ten millions. Ii is noi
only IN these castles that one meets siares
bnt in oil The castles from the Bramm 10
the Pn'iah Ii one wishes 10 have an
exact idea of the extent OF slavery and OF
the number of slaves in English India,
be must consult the testimonies and the
authorities cited 10 number 1873 of The
parliamentary papers of 1929, pages
l03 to 1919. The travels Of the Rev.
Mr. Malcom in Hndosian page %,
Slavery in English India, by Peg, pages
% 10 81.
Cd. Condition Of The Slrres
The English law mainlains The Mo,
homedan and Indian laws, which rccog
n'ze and sanction sidrery. The children
OF a female slave are born slaves The
come Me stares Of The purchaser.
A free person can sell himself MS n
slave.
The tribunals can declare the debtor
the slave Of the creditor.
The prisoner Of war becomes q slave.
While in the French colonies, after
the suppression, none were slaves but
fhp rhiIIrnu If A. fa eIayn
Natural children, recognized as free
bv their father and mother could not be
their slaves
The father and mother cannot he The
slaves of their free children.
Brothers and sisters could not be
slnves oI their free brothers or sisters -
(Ordlnapce of The / lth Jan. 1899, art
lst.)
The right ofan Indian master over his
slave, is absolute and wuhom hmit-he
has he rieM 10 use and abuse him.
In the Indian possessions Of PhiIua-
hropic England, no law pronounces pun
ishment upon master who has matreat
cd his slave.
ln the French colonies, imprisonmcn
and corporal punishment are restricted
The most severe punishments are
pronounced against the master who ShdiI
hare abused his power.
The master who has killed his slave
shall he punished with death. Edit OF
March 10th, 1896, article 81.
In British India where the odious
white slavery exists so generally, the
tribunals cannot take from the master the
poor slave who has been mallreated by
him: but the tribunals in the French
colonies have this power aud use ii
whenever the master has been found
guilty ot i'll usage.
The 32d article OF the ordinance hold,
ing the application at the colonies, of the
12th of September, 1923, directs also
that IN criminal affairs where the court
should have judged it convenient to re-
cclve the declaration Of the slave for or
against his master, the slave could be
sold and does not permit that he should
be bought again by the descendants Of
his master. w
The law thus gives the slave a new
home in order TO assure the independence
OF his testimony but the Indian slaves
employed in cuivaiing, cannot be sepa-
rated from The land which they ill. -
These sales become each day less fire.
quent in the French colonies.
A disposition Of the project of the law
on the appropriation forced in the colo
pies, submitted at this time 10 the Cham
ber of Peers, fnrbids the proprie,ors tc
separate by donation sales or other alien.
alton parents and children
The Indian slaves, husbands and
wives, mothers and children, can be sold
separately.
These sales did not take place in our
colonies.
The English Legislation in India is fnr
from being as favorable to emancipation
as the French Legislation in our colonies
An ordinance oiihc $. of Marca, 1881
ahollshes every administrative tax for
emancipation.
An ordinance Of the 18th of July,
1882, simpllies the lormalitlrs.
An ordinance Of the | lth Of June.
1889, establishes great number Of
cases in which emancipation takes the
place of full right, and it declares that
the slave who has rendered great public
services shall be ahranohised by a colo.
nial decree.
The Indian slaves of philnnthropic
England are treated with harshness by
their masters. They are generally lodg-
ed III miserable huts, half naked and
scarcely fed they have dropsic al
countenance contrasied with the meagcr-
ness OF their legs and their arms. The
Rev. Joseph Zenn declares that these
slaves (amoun,ing TO the number Of IOO,-
. 600 IN Malabar alone are IN such state
Of degradation that ihcy can hardin be re-
cognized as human beings
The British Indian slaves are totally
abandoned in their old aye, and during
their sickness.
Their masters give them no medicines
SO heg die in great numbers during The
pidemcs
They work all the time that their mas
ters wish, from morning I'LL evening
without any Iniermission but that of their
frpaSt.
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