. A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people . e andcruelty. AVhcn the Spaniards found how ra-pidly the aboriginal population perished underthe system of forced labor which they had in-troduced, they resorted to the expedient of im-porting negro slaves from Africa, and theirexample was soon followed by the Iortuguese,Dutch, French, and English. At the presenttime, the population of Guiana and the WestIndies consists of three de
. A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people . e andcruelty. AVhcn the Spaniards found how ra-pidly the aboriginal population perished underthe system of forced labor which they had in-troduced, they resorted to the expedient of im-porting negro slaves from Africa, and theirexample was soon followed by the Iortuguese,Dutch, French, and English. At the presenttime, the population of Guiana and the WestIndies consists of three descriptions of people :willies, mixed races, and negroes. Jhe whites,or Europeans, chiefly British, consist partly ofproprietors, sui)erintending the cultivation oftheir own lands, and partly of agents andoverseers. The negroes have always formedby far the largest portion of the the 1st of August, 1834, they have en-joyed a state of freedom in the British portionof the West Indies. As the negroes aix) ofAfrican origin, we must refer to Africa for adescription of their native character andhabits. MISSIONS. Missionary Society.—Anligiu:.—Nathaniel Gill)ert, Esq., the speaker of the.
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