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Slaves have no protection. In this, as I doubt not in every other island, there are laws for the protection of the slaves, and good ones, but circumstances in the administration of whatever law, render it a dead letter. When the intervention of the law is most required, it will have the least effect; as, in most cases, where a vindictive and cruel master has care to commit the most atrocious cruelties, even to murder his slave, there is no free person present to witness the act

Slaves in the British Colonies and in America were not allowed to testify against a master and in most jurisdictions were not allowed to testify against any white. The de facto result was that there was no practical way to convict a slave owner who violated the laws regarding the treatment of slaves unless the owner performed the act in front of other whites.

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William Young

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Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet, FRS, FSA was a British colonial governor, politician and owner of sugar plantations which, in 1788, included 896 enslaved Africans. He was the governor of Tobago from 1807 – January 1815, and Member of Parliament for St Mawes, 19 June 1784 – 3 November 1806, and Buckingham, 5 November 1806 – 23 March 1807.

WILLIAM YOUNG

(Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet)