Excerpt from The West Indies, Before and Since Slave Emancipation: Comprising the Windward and Leeward Islands' Military Command; Founded on Notes and Observations Collected During a Three Years Residence The period of my personal experience was a critical one: extending from July, 1845, when I landed in Barbados, to November, 1848, when I left it to return to England, it comprised events of no small importance to the colonies, especially those distressing ones couse quent on the alteration in the duties on their staple produce. 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.