Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London: A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.Zulueta, Pedro de
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Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London: A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.
Zulueta, Pedro de
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With regard to the Kroomen, however desirable they may be as
labourers, and however advantageous the object may be to themselves,
we are not prepared in the first instance to recommend other
facilities for emigration than those which we have suggested to be
offered to other Natives who might desire to make use of a British
Settlement as a point of departure[10]. If they should desire, as it
appears that it is not improbable they may, to make a Migration across
the Atlantic, with their habits they will find no difficulty in making
their way, for the purpose, to Sierra Leone, where some hundreds or
even thousands of their brethren habitually reside, some of whom have
already emigrated to Guiana, and seem to be as active in the field, as
we have long found them to be on the sea, and to be well pleased with
the experiment.
[10] On this point, however, we beg to refer to the important evidence
of Capt. Denman, who thinks that on account of the peculiar character of
the Kroomen, emigration, with common precaution, might be conducted from
their coast without risk of abuse. _See_ Q. 6995, _et preced._
If it should hereafter be thought desirable to form any Settlement on
the Kroo Coast, however small, it might facilitate arrangements
similar to those which we have recommended for the other Settlements.
Or they might possibly hereafter be embarked from the Coast itself
under the superintendence of a man-of-war. (_See_ Capt. Denman.)
The same door might be opened, under the same precautions, from the
Gambia; but with regard to the Gold Coast, the supply of labour there
not appearing to be more than necessary for the wants of the country,
we would not recommend any peculiar facilities to be afforded.
The expense of the Emigration would of course be defrayed by the
Colony to which each successive band of Emigrants was directed.
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