Note 2 — Chapter I · THE WEST INDIES BEFORE THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
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It must not be inferred from this statement that the system of slavery was more cruel in the West Indies, than in other sugar-growing Colonies and States. Wherever sugar is produced by slave-labor, there is always an awful destruction of negro life, owing to the severely hard pressure of work, continued night and day, during one particular season of the crops.