{"value"=>"<p>Address by unknown person laying out proposal for how the emancipation of enslaved laborers in the British West Indies should unfold. While arguing that an immediate announcement of freedom was necessary so that the enslaved did not feel compelled to emancipate themselves, an action which would \"render [them] much more miserable than they were heretofore,\" the speaker insists the most judicious course for the financial interests of merchants and slaveholders (of which he was one, owning three estates in Berbice) was gradual emancipation over 10-12 years. Date unknown.</p>"}