West Indian sketches drawn from authentic sources
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Slavery; Description and travel
Other titles: Antidote to the West-Indian sketches drawn from authentic sources.
Notes: "Antidote to the West-Indian sketches drawn from original sources" (2nd-4th counts) originally printed in 1816 in London for Whitmore and Fenn, and issued in three numbers: no. 1. Condition of the slaves in the British Colonies, from Pinckard's Notes on the West Indies; no. 2. A short account of the African Institution, and refutation of the calumnies of the directors / by Sir James Leith; no. 3. The actual condition of the Negroes in the British West India colonies, and a further exposure of the calumnies of the African Institution.

Each number has special t.p.

Two columns to the page.

Reproduction of the original from the Royal Commonwealth Society. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Table of contents: title: no. 1. Punishment of the maroons of Demarara : from Pinckard's Notes on the West Indies; title: No. 2. State of the slave population, illustrated by a view of certain transactions in the island of Nevis; title: No. 3. Legal condition of the slave, exemplified; title: No. 4. The nature of West-Indian slavery, further illustrated by certain occurrences in the island of Tortola; title: No. 5. Anecdotes tending to elucidate the nature of our colonial bondage as it respects; title: No. 6. Remarks on the Antidote to the West-Indian sketches; title: No. 7. Further remarks occasioned by the Antidote to the West-Indian sketches; title: No. 8. Further remarks on the Antidote to the West-Indian sketches : being a re-consideration of the case of Mr. Hodge.