afpendix..] WEST INDIES. 
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APPENDIX TO BOOK IV 
NUMBER I. 
AS a supplement to such part of the preceding book 
ms relates to the treatment of the negroes in the British 
West Indies, it is thought necessary to present the reader 
with the Consolidated Slave Act of Jamaica, pas¬ 
sed the 2d of March 1792. It is presumed, that this 
law will demonstrate to general conviction, that the 
legislature of Jamaica, availing themselves as well of 
the reproaches of their enemies, as of the suggestions 
of their f riends, have given all possible encouragement 
to the raising of negro children in the island, and se¬ 
cured to their labourers as much freedom, and as great 
a latitude of enjoyment of the necessaries, conveniencies, 
and comforts of life, as can be done consistently with 
their own preservation. The humane reader will not com¬ 
plain of the length of this Appendix, if he shall hereaf¬ 
ter find, that the other British islands in the West Indies, 
encouraged by the example before them, shall introduce 
the benevolent provisions of this act, into their own negro 
code. 
*g* The chief alterations between this law and that of 1788, (which, 
is now repealed), are printed in Italic. 
