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" He saw that the negroes, like all other human beings, were to be stimulated to permanent exertion only by a sense of their own interests, in providing for their own wants and those of their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused... "
Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and ... - Page 279
by Adam Hodgson - 1823 - 335 pages
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The Inquirer, Volume 1

1822 - 764 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the...had excited among his whole gang enabled him to pay. Hero was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His people became contented...
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Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the ...

Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 60 pages
...rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended \i\regularwages, which the industry he had excited among his whole...inseparable from the vulgar system, and in little more than four years the annual neat clearance of his property teas more, than tripled." Again, in...
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Substance of the Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May, 1823, on a ...

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 586 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which " immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His " experiments ended in regular wages, which the...pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reci" procity of interests. His people became contented ; his " mind was freed from that perpetual...
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A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste Say

Adam Hodgson - Slave labor - 1823 - 102 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which '[ immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His " experiments ended in regular wages, which the...pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reci" procity of interests. His people became contented ; his " mind was freed from that perpetual...
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Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the ...

Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1823 - 80 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the...enabled him to pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profi table reciprocity of .interests. His people became contented; his mind was freed from that perpetual...
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A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste Say: On the Comparative Expense of Free and ...

Adam Hodgson - Slave labor - 1823 - 66 pages
...offspring. He therefore tried rewards, " which immediately roused the most indolent to ex"•ertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, " which the...whole " gang, enabled him to pay. Here was a natural, ef'* ficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His " people •became contented ; his mind...
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Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the ...

Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1823 - 78 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the...industry he had excited among his whole gang enabled him tot pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His people became...
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An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the ...

William Wilberforce - Abolitionists - 1823 - 642 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewardi, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the industry he had excited ai'jong his whole gang enabled him to pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity...
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The Evangelical rambler [by T. East]., Volume 3

1825 - 448 pages
...most indolent to exertion. His experiment ended in regular wages, which the industry he had excited in his whole gang enabled him to pay. Here was a natural,...inseparable from the vulgar system, and in little more than four years, the annual net clearance of his property was more than tripled.' Again, in another...
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Wages Or the Whip: An Essay on the Comparative Cost and Productiveness of ...

Josiah Conder - Slave labor - 1833 - 104 pages
...their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the...years, the annual nett clearance of his property was more than tripled.' as much as it would cost if executed by a free man. Taking another case, he demonstrates,...
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