[18] This horrid feature of our colonial system prevails uniformly throughout the whole range of our West Indian possessions. No one can have visited them without knowing that the practice of _driving_ Negroes at their work by means of the whip is _universal_: and yet such is the gross ignorance of the subject prevailing in this country, that the fact, though as notorious in the West Indies as that slavery exists there at all, has been sometimes disputed even in the House of Commons. [19] See Long’s History of Jamaica, and, in addition to many other proofs which might be adduced, the preceding part of this pamphlet. [20] _Imaginary misery!_ Am I then wrong in having attributed to West Indians a different set of moral perceptions from those which prevail among the inhabitants of Great Britain? If at the time when this Report was framed the reporters were ignorant of the horrors which have recently taken place in the West Indies, they could not be ignorant that such horrors might be practised with impunity. Transcriber’s Notes pg 16 Changed: to which he fastensd to: to which he fastened