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" I know we are free. I have read it in the English papers. I have taken an oath not to work after Christmas without pay, and I will not. "
Analysis of the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons on the ... - Page 114
by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions - 1833 - 213 pages
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Facts and Documents Connected with the Late Insurrection in Jamaica, and the ...

William Knibb - Black people - 1832 - 32 pages
...shall get it quietly, but if they did what was wrong it would bring a disgrace upon Religion. Sharp said, I know we are free, I have read it in the English...taken an oath not to work after Christmas, without some satisfaction, and I will not. He then left us. Gardner stated, that he then went in the street...
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Anti-slavery Monthly Reporter, Volumes 5-6

Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1833 - 978 pages
...their freedom ; but that the whole had been made up at Retrieve. The persons examined all referred to the expectation that was entertained of the island...Guthrie and some others, at Guthrie's house. Guthrie oflered them wine or spirits : they chose wine. Guthrie poured it out, and, taking his glass, said,...
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Report from the Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the ...

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions - Antislavery movements - 1833 - 604 pages
...freedom is come, we shall get it quietly, but if they did what was wrong, it would bring a disgrace upon religion.' Sharpe said, 'I know we are free, I have...taken an oath not to work after Christmas without some satisfaction, and I will not ;' he then left us. Gardner stated that he then went in the street...
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History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, Volume 2

Francis Augustus Cox - Baptists - 1842 - 546 pages
...to which he replied, " What then is to become of the oath we have taken in the country?" He added, "I know we are free; I have read it in the English...taken an oath not to work after Christmas, without some satisfaction, and I will not." This statement was confirmed by John Sharp, the individual who...
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Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious ...

Dianne M. Stewart - Religion - 2005 - 368 pages
...replied, "What then is to become of the oath we have taken in the country?" He added, "I know we ate free; I have read it in the English papers. I have...taken an oath not to work after Christmas, without some satisfaction, and I will not." This statement was confirmed by [Sam] Sharp, the individual who...
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