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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia commentary predicts that French emancipation of blacks in their islands will end slavery-based agriculture, with freed blacks becoming landowners, altering island culture, and possibly reverting to African lifestyles, excluding whites except as slaves.
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DECEMBER 8.
The world is probably reaping its last harvest from the slavery and toil of the natives of Africa. The French having emancipated the blacks in their Islands, no doubt can be entertained that they will ere long become the Lords of the Soil—in that case, it is not to be presumed, that from ten to fifteen men with arms in their hands will labor for the support of one— This being the case, it requires not the spirit of prophecy to foresee that the culture of the Islands will be totally changed -or if it should be continued on its present plan by the blacks for a time, no whites will be permitted to reside among them, but in the capacity of slaves—The probability however is, that the negroes will revert in a great measure to the state of life to which the great majority of them were accustomed in their own country.
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Primary Location
French Islands
Event Date
December 8
Outcome
predicted end of slavery-based labor; blacks to become landowners; potential exclusion or enslavement of whites; reversion to african lifestyles.
Event Details
French emancipation of blacks in their islands will lead to blacks becoming lords of the soil, refusing to labor for whites, changing island agriculture, and possibly barring whites or reducing them to slaves, with negroes reverting to prior states of life.