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mdp.39015028086281	France. Chambre des députés. Commission chargée d'examiner la proposition de M. de Tracy, relative aux esclaves de colonies.	Report made to the Chamber of Deputies on the abolition of slavery in the French colonies by Alexis de Tocqueville 	1840		.txt	text/plain	11464	635	68	the importance of the subject, as may be seen by the following report of the Minister of the Marine and the colonies, presented to Louis Philippe in May last, and which on giving to a slave the thoughts, the habits, and morals of a free man, is to condemn him to remain always The terror of poison is great in this country; by its power the slave governs his master." When, on the contrary, the slaves receive their liberty one by one, and by a concurrence of circumstances which appear accidental, the social change thus One of these colonies, Jamaica, counted for herself alone three hundred and twentytwo thousand slaves, and thirty-five thousand whites; this colony as yet has only 5,000 free inhabitants and 16,000 slaves. slavery should be abolished in all the English colonies; and that the slave should then pass forever from emancipation, but 29,370 slaves, 4,066 free blacks, and	./cache/mdp.39015028086281.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015028086281.txt