] However, it doesn't seem to mention Antigua anywhere -it just mentions the Virgin Islands, and the inquiries and evidence taken at the National Assembly on Nevis in 1810.

I've just ordered an 1826 pamphlet from a bookseller called, "Insubordination in Antigua" - which purports to look at the effects of the "revolting negroes" in Antigua in the aftermath of abolition. I'm naturally hoping that it will mention the situation in the decades before.

The same seller has another pamplet for sale that I will probably buy if this one sheds no light. It's described thusly:

GOVERNMENT Treatment of slaves in the Colonies; viz. Acts of Colonial Legislatures; 1818 - 1823. H.M.S.O. 1824 66 large pp. Fine in orig. blue paper covers. Copies of Acts passed to aid the condition of slaves in Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, C.O.G.H., Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St Vincent, Tobago and Virgin Islands. £30

That one would at least show us what the government said should be happening in Antigua and elsewhere to aid the condition of slaves in 1818 and after - although I suspect that the gap between what the government recommended and what slave-owners were willing to provide may have been enormous.