Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands, from ...The Society, 1824 |
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accept the office Adults Appendix appointed Archdeacon attend baptized Bart Basseterre Branch Association Bristol British West India Broad-street C. R. Esq Catechists chapel Chaplain Christian Church Clergy Colonies Committee Conversion and Religious Cornhill Curtin Dean Demerara Diocese of Barbados Ditto Rev Dixfield donation Ellis England Company established Estates Farningham Form of Notitia George GEORGE HIBBERT Gilbert Harley-street Hendrickson HENRY GOULBURN Honourable Incorporated Society Instruction and Education J. H. Esq Jamaica James JAMES CURTIN John labours Leeward Islands Liverpool LORD BISHOP Luckock M.A. Archdeacon M.A. Rector Meeting Messrs Miss NEGRO SLAVES Nevis Norbiton number of Slaves Paid Pallmer Parish of St Pinder Pounds currency Prebendary Quarter's Salary received Rector of St Religious Instruction Report requested to accept resident Reverend Right Rev Secretary Society in London Society's Stainsby Subscribers Subscriptions Sunday School Thomas tion Treasurer Vaughan Watson West India Islands West India Planters Westminster William WILLIAM HUSKISSON Wimpole-street
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Seite 34 - Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands, for the years 1824, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830.
Seite 52 - THE SAINT ANN'S SOCIETY SCHOOLS,' established in th« year 1709, the sum of to be raised and paid by and out of my ready money, plate, goods and personal effects, which by law I may or can charge with the payment of the same, (and not out of any part of my lands, tenements or hereditaments), to be applied towards carrying on the laudable designs of the said Institution.
Seite 19 - It may also be worthy of notice, that' of the slaves which I had baptized in the town of St. John's, during the first ten or twelve years of my ministry, more than one fourth, or perhaps a third part, are now free people, some off the island, some sea-faring people at sea.
Seite 10 - Barbadoes have already set such a spirited example. It may be also expected, when a knowledge of this measure shall be extensively circulated, and ITS APPLICABILITY TO EVERY PROPERTY shall be generally understood, that the Governors may look with confidence to larger contributions to the Parent Society, and indulge the pleasing hope of seeing the work complete. Offers have...
Seite 9 - SOCIETY FOR THE CONVERSION AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, AND EDUCATION OF THE NEGROE SLAVES IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIA ISLANDS...
Seite 12 - Master ; and the soil which they have to work upon is so improved by the fostering care and indulgent treatment of the owner to his slaves, that they are sanguine in the hope of reaping the fruits of their labours at no very distant day. Should it be objected to the Clergy...
Seite 13 - Slaves, they have hitherto exhibited no interest in the question ; they owe it to themitlves to declare, in the first place, that although they have not heretofore tendered their services in a Body, they have not failed, individually, to testify their readiness to co-operate with the master in the great work of instruction and reformation. Their Churches have at all times been equally open to the Coloured as to the White population ; and they have never felt the...
Seite 9 - ... Bishop calculates on having at his command a sufficient number for his Diocese. The funds of the Incorporated Society, which, under the necessity of the case, have been hitherto applied to the support of Chaplains, will thus be set at liberty for the more appropriate purpose of providing Catechists, in aid of, and in subordination to the established Parochial Clergy ; and to be so stationed by the Bishop's appointment and licence, as to be able to assist in the instruction of the Negroes upon...
Seite 9 - ... Parochial Clergy ; and to be so stationed by the Bishop's appointment and licence, as to be able to assist in the instruction of the Negroes upon every Estate upon which their services may be required. The total number of Catechists which will be necessary upon this system for the Diocese of Barbados alone, is estimated at 100 ; and assuming the expense of each to be 50/. per ann., the sum which the. Governors are able to expend in this Diocese, will afford provision for thirty *. To assist in...
Seite 13 - ... body, to offer themselves to the country as the responsible agents of imparting such religious and moral instruction to the Slave population, as may tend to the glory of God, the general welfare of the Colony, and to the cultivation of mutual good-will between Master and Slave.