The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volume 2James Humphreys, 1806 - Bahamas |
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... groes . The cultivation of sugar has been found less successful in this island than cotton , though it still continues to be made on two plantations . * This was written in 1791 : since that time Grenada has sustain- ed a melancholy ...
... groes . The cultivation of sugar has been found less successful in this island than cotton , though it still continues to be made on two plantations . * This was written in 1791 : since that time Grenada has sustain- ed a melancholy ...
Page 105
... groes and the Charaibes , in which it is believed that the former were generally victorious ; it is cer- tain that they proved so in the end , their numbers , in 1763 , being computed at two thousand ; where- as , of the red or native ...
... groes and the Charaibes , in which it is believed that the former were generally victorious ; it is cer- tain that they proved so in the end , their numbers , in 1763 , being computed at two thousand ; where- as , of the red or native ...
Page 151
... groes ; and there are about three hundred blacks and mulattoes of free condition . As in the other British islands in the neighbour- hood , all the white men from the age of sixteen to sixty are obliged to enlist in the militia , and in ...
... groes ; and there are about three hundred blacks and mulattoes of free condition . As in the other British islands in the neighbour- hood , all the white men from the age of sixteen to sixty are obliged to enlist in the militia , and in ...
Page 155
... groes amount to about ten thousand ; a dispropor- tion which necessarily converts all such white men as are not exempted by age or decrepitude , into a well regulated militia , among which there is a troop consisting of fifty horse ...
... groes amount to about ten thousand ; a dispropor- tion which necessarily converts all such white men as are not exempted by age or decrepitude , into a well regulated militia , among which there is a troop consisting of fifty horse ...
Page 172
... groes , in order to lead them afterwards step by step into all truth : they therefore make it a rule , never to enter into an extensive discussion of the doctrines of God's being an infinite spirit , of the Holy Trinity , & c . nor to ...
... groes , in order to lead them afterwards step by step into all truth : they therefore make it a rule , never to enter into an extensive discussion of the doctrines of God's being an infinite spirit , of the Holy Trinity , & c . nor to ...
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acres Africa afterwards Antigua ants appear apprehended assembly authority aforesaid Barbadoes Britain British British West Indies called canes captain cause Charaibes chief CHIG Christopher's circumstances colony conviction council Count D'Estaing court crown cultivation death Dominica duty earl of Carlisle England English ERSITY estates exported French further enacted Gold coast governor grant Grenada groes hereby hogsheads honour hundred inhabitants Jamaica justices and vestry king Koromantyn labour lands Leeward Islands lord majesty majesty's Mandingoes manner master ment MICHI mulatto nation natives negroes neral oath Obeah observed offence overseer owner parish peace penalty plantation planters possession possessor pounds present produce proprietor punishment purchase quantity received runaway sent ships SITY slave or slaves slavery sold species sterling suffer sugar thereof thousand tion Tortola town trade trial UNIV West Indian West Indies Whidah white person whole workhouse
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Page 205 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 175 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Page 206 - ... those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 367 - ... forcibly separated from his wife and children, dragged to public auction, purchased by a stranger, and perhaps sent to terminate his miserable existence in the mines of Mexico; excluded for ever from the light of heaven! and all this without any crime or imprudence on his part, real or pretended. He is punished because his master is unfortunate.
Page 34 - the prohibition was extended also to the mother country: and no goods were suffered to be imported into England, or any of its dependencies, in any other than English bottoms ; or in the ships of that European nation of which the merchandize imported was the genuine growth or manufacture. At the restoration the former provisions were continued, by statute 12 Car. II. cl 8. with this very material improvement, that the master and three-fourths of the mariners shall also be English subjects.
Page 206 - The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward.
Page 231 - The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her sister VENUS chose, In FLORENCE, where she's seen ; Both just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between.
Page 302 - In the year 1760, when a very formidable insurrection of the Koromantyn or Gold Coast negroes broke out in the parish of St. Mary, and spread through almost every other district of the island, an old...
Page 51 - People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England...
Page 30 - ... assurance that your excellency will take such course for the collecting and gathering of the said impost, without any charge, duty or fees, as may be most for the ease of the people of this island. Provided nevertheless, That neither this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend or be construed to bar his majesty, or his said...