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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 63: January-June, 1848 <p>We first reduced to a half of its former amount the protective duty on foreign slave-grown sugar, and then, b the act of 1846, in pursuance of Sir Peel's principles, and with his approbation, passed an act for the progressive reduction, during three years, of the duties on foreign sugar, until, in 1849, these on foreign; and colonial were to become equal to each other! That is, having first deprived our: own colonies of their slave labour for less than a fourth of its value, we proceeded to.6 Thirty Years of Lateral Legislation. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.