Download or read book The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq. (Classic Reprint) written by William Adam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq. There are various reasons which encourage me to prose cute the consideration of this subject. Slavery is indeed only one of many evils under which India suffers, and I will even admit that its operation is less extensive and its effects less injurious than some other evils that I could mention. But it is of such a nature that, while it exists and wherever it exists, it checks the improvement of human character and the development of human society; aids all other bad influences and impedes all good influences; and its removal, therefore, will not only remove a large amount of 'positive injustice, degradation, and suffering, but is essential to the free and salutary working of every other measure that may or can be devised for the advancement of mankind in the country where it prevails. This is the inherent and radical attraction of the subject; but there are also collateral and subordinate inducements to bring it before the public. 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.