Provided by: Rev. G. Griffiths Rev. John Stainsby Miss M.A. Senior Col. Colebrook of Jamaica Rev. J.B. Wilkinson, of Antigua Rev. George Sealy of Nevis Rev. J.W. Duke of Essequibo.

Extract of a letter from M.G. Stephenson, reporting that the new system seemed to be working well though the apprentices were being oppressed and worked beyond what was right, the refusal of the parents to apprentice their children under six years of age despite the withdrawal of rations, and the general dismissal of all the special magistrates on instructions from the Secretary of State. Endorsed in pencil with notes of the opinions expressed by Hugh Bailiff, Scholefield, Rev. W. Marsh,...

Comprises: (pp. 1-14) 'As it respects the laws of the Colonial Legislatures consisting of an account of the laws passed in Jamaica and comments upon them by several correspondents', n.d. (copy) (pp. 15-22) 'As it respects the general conduct of the Planters, Managers, and Overseers towards the Apprenticed Labourers'. Reference is made to a summary of this in the ...

Extracts from a letter from William Thomas Rainy about the poor condition of the apprentices, the character, number, and duties of the stipendiary magistrates and their negligence, the hours of labour, and abuses in their administration and in the conditions of work of women with young children and the need for protection of Black people. Also includes a letter from Rainy relating the complaints made by apprentices of the hardships inflicted on them and alleging that some apprentices were...

Answers to a questionnaire on the apprenticeship system, the attitudes of plantation owners and apprentices towards it, the ease with which punishment could be inflicted within the law, the special magistrate system, the fate of the emancipated slaves of the Earl of Romney, and the flogging of women.

Extracts from letters on the discontent of Black people, the desire of the plantation owners for a rebellion to quell, the departure of the Governor for the Leeward Islands to address some unrest, and the quarrel between the Governor and the local owners, the difficulty of obtaining justice for Black people, the arrival of Archdeacon Elliot, the summoning of Sir Andrew Halliday to Trinidad, probably organised by the plantation owners, and the continuance of the production of sugar.

Observations by R.M. Thomas on the last report submitted by him as Protector of Slaves before the office was abolished. He also recounts the details of the appeal brought by him before the Privy Council against the judgement of the Admiralty Court in a case involving the status of 75 recently landed Malayan (Malaysian) people. He includes a copy of his own memorial to the Colonial Secretary and gives an account of the judicial problems of the island at that time and the difficulties he had...

[Possibly issued by the Anti-Slavery Society].

Papers originally held in a marbled folder, some attached by silk cords, others loose. On the cover of the folder was a label, 'Conduct of the Apprentices 1835, Black No 2'.