An attempt to argue the inefficiency of slavery in the long run- "that slave-holding is as unprofitable as it is criminal, as costly as it is unjust" (2). Like Adam Hodgson's Letter to Jean-Baptiste Say in 1823, this pamphlet cites economists of slavery such as Adam Smith and Heinrich von Storch, as well as Koster's 1816 Travels in BraziL and the French writer Le Poivre. Conder also gives examples of free labour sugar plantation schemes from around the world, including Bengal, Indonesia and Mexico, and free cotton plantations in Latin America, in order to prove: "that the unhappy slaves are capable of becoming peasants, farmers, and landowners" (37-38).