<p>Excerpt from Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, Vol. 1 of 2: During the Transition From Slavery to ApprenticeshipThe reader who is preparing to set out on his travels by his fireside, has a right to know some thing of the companion with whom he is about to journey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.</p>

Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, Vol. 1 of 2: During the Transition From Slavery to Apprenticeship (Classic Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard Robert Madden

Social Sciences

Forgotten Books

History of Irish Periodical Literature from the End of the Seventeenth to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Its Origin, Progress, & Results; with Notices of Remarkable Persons of Past 2 Centuries.

History

Europe

Johnson Reprint Corporation

Excerpt from The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: With Numerous Original Poetraits, and Additional Authentic Documents; The Whole Matter Newly Arranged and RevisedMy Lord,When I commenced this work many years ago, and was only known to your Lordship as a man who had rendered some slight services to a cause, of which you had been the consistent and strenuous advocate from the outset of your career in public life, I was indebted to you for an introduction to an eminent French historian, and a request that I might have access to the archives of the public departments in Paris, with a view to the use of documents that might have any bearing on the subject of my intended work, in which undertaking your Lordship was pleased to express an interest, and an opinion of its utility. I am, then, indebted for that generous aid of your Lordship, to my humble efforts against slavery and the slave trade; not in the quiet closets of philanthropy at home, or the great arena for the advocacy of that cause, in the British press or parliament, but on the battle-ground itself of the struggle with the taskmasters and dealers and chapmen of their fellow-men, - in the Spanish Colonics and on the coast of Africa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: With Numerous Original Poetraits, and Additional Authentic Documents; The Whole Matter Newly Arranged and Revised (Classic Reprint)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Excerpt from The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Vol. 2 of 2Lady Blessington had reason to know that such was the opinion of the Marquess: among her papers she has left a very remarkable piece of evidence of the fact, of unquestionable authenticity, in the following statement of the Marquess to her in March 1840.Bushe is one of the first men produced by our country. When I went to Ireland in 1821, I found him depressed by an old Orangeman, named Saurin, then attorney-ge neral by title, but who had been really Lord Lieutenant for fifteen years. I removed Saurin, and appointed Bashe Lord Chief Justice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Memoirs

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