Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 6: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Section I The Duke of Wellington, with Lords St. Vincent, Penshurst, and Wynford, joined in a protest against the West India Slavery [abolition] Bill, published in The Times, September 3, 1833. Their first reason was that the slaves were not prepared by a previous course of educa tion, of religious instruction, or of training to habits of industry, or Of social intercourse, for their new position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.