A Permanent and Effectual Remedy Suggested for the Evils Under Which the British West Indies Now Labour


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Excerpt from A Permanent and Effectual Remedy Suggested for the Evils Under Which the British West Indies Now Labour: In a Letter From a West India Merchant to a West India Planter 37-ou have often asked me in the course of, the repeated applications to government from the West India body for relief under' the cala mities which have so nearly overwhelmed them, whether there were no means within our own power capable of being applied, and which must at last he resorted to, if it were found that ministers neither would nor could afford the modes of relief which, at Various times, have been pointed out to them, or if those means should prove ineffectual upon experiment With great deference I submit to you the follow ing lines; and the result of every consideration I can give the subject is, that on the operation of the remedy I now propose we must ultimately depend for relief. I am not so Sanguine as to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Mansfield Park


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Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and desires. Fanny comes to live at Mansfield Park, the home of the wealthy Bertram family, and of Fanny’s aunt, Lady Bertram. Though the family impresses upon Fanny her inferior status, she finds a friend in Edmund, the younger brother. Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams’ wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and women’s education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents.







The Edinburgh Review


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