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Problems with labor supply because of abolition of apprenticeship in Demerara [Guyana]

Includes printed circular dispatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department [Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg] regarding the liability to seizure of vessels carrying on slave trade between Africa and Brazil under the Portuguese flag. Vessels built in Brazil illegally sailed under Portuguese flag and continuing the slave trade defied the Treaty between Great Britain and Brazil for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Colonial authorities instructed to seize any such vessels and take them to court.

Regarding labor and the apprenticeship abolition act in Demerara; "the negroes having been quite alive to all that has been going on…for the last two or three weeks." $15 per month, including provisions (not clothing), is new wage proposed to laborers, and that laborers will not be happy with receiving part of their wages as food. Describes laborers as"whimsical" and that wages will not be agreed upon until the"feelings" of the laborers are clearer.

"Journal of an agent of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society"; describes his travels through Pennsylvania to give lectures, collect money, and urge locals to form their own societies. Zug reports on the level of interest in colonization that he encounters in various towns, notes meeting abolitionists and opponents of colonization. Also notes the presence of African-Americans in his audiences.

Working with state anti-slavery society. Colleagues in Illinois will have to assist him if he is to continue conducting a weekly publication; they talk a lot but he needs "something more." Refers to the"Genius of Universal Emancipation" that he intends to publish.

Concerning economic changes due to the abolition of apprenticeship in Demerara. Discusses the quality and cost of supplies of shoes and bread received for African-Guyanese laborers.

Requests Dearborn to distribute notices of the County meeting to help with a subscription drive. Pleased with the "State Convention of the Abolitionists," recently held at Worcester, Massachusetts. Has engaged [Amos Augustus] Phelps (1805-1847) and [William Lloyd] Garrison (1805-1879) for their county Anti-Slavery meeting to be held at Hingham. "We must have a full & (spunky!) delegation." Attended an "Anti License-law Meeting." See also C. W. Wood ALS to E. B. Dearborn, May 27, 1837, in the Clements Library's Education Collection.

Journal entries regarding mob violence in Philadelphia. Mobs have burned Pennsylvania Hall [built the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and having stood for three days] and an orphanage for African Americans, which "was saved from total destruction by the opposing intrepidity of Alderman McMichael and a few other Citizens."

Statement of claims and wants of the New England Non-Resistance Society. The executive committee voted to send out letters to all persons "known to have adopted the principles of non resistance." Espouses the Society's religious view of social ills and call for"holy warfare." Requested that recipients pledge money to the Society.

Has stayed longer at Hatcham than expected, on account of "Intreaties, the irresistible Intreaties, as you know, of our friends to remain there." Appointments, dinner invitations, etc. Will sit for Mr. Bohnes today, so that he make final corrections to his marble bust of Clarkson. Unable to dine with Dr. Burder tomorrow. Clarkson remarks that his poor eyesight makes writing difficult.