YOUR NEGRO CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. To VIE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR.")
have read your article in the Spectator of December 28th, entitled "Negro Capacity,—A Suggestion," with much interest, and in reply I may perhaps venture to say that if, when the legal status of slavery in the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba is proclaimed, Lord Salisbury would agree to hand over the supervision of the slaves now employed upon the plantations to the care of a, committee of members of the society of Friends, it would be possible to organise such a committee to establish colonies of liberated slaves generally upon the lines you indicate in selected districts in the two islands, and the same committee would also be prepared to undertake the supervision of the emancipated slaves on those plantations which continue to be held and worked by Arab planters. I have no doubt, the proposed committee could give sufficiently satisfactory guarantees to her Majesty's Govern- ment and that of the Sultan of Zanzibar, that the present revenue received by the Government from the plantation crops would be maintained, and that any capital advanced by the Government to pay off existing mortgages on the estates would be repaid by instalments spread over a limited series of years.—I am, Sir, &e.,
A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
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