Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. 4: January 5, 1831 They had studiously endeavoured to exclude Christian missionaries troui the colonies chapels and meeting-houses had been pulled down and razed, and ex en the persons of theo ministers invaded and t0itured to the death Applause. As a proof that it was the set purpose of W est India proprietors to put down all attempts to instruct the ne groes, he referred to their refusal to appoint any other day than Sun day for holding their markets. In consequence of another recent enactment, no negro was allowed to attend worship at all, between the setting and rising of the sun; and as they must work from the rising to the setting of that luminary, it was evident that they had no time for worship at all, - for on Sunday they must cultivate their provision Grounds. It was the duty of every man who had been taught to look his fellow-creature in the face to exert himself to put an end to this hapless slavery; and he trusted he had said enough to satisfy all who heard him that slavery was an abominable curse and crime, and that the only cure for the evils which he had enumerated was emancipation. 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.