Four Years' Residence in the West Indies |
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... happy returns of the day . " At length the evening arrived , and our conviviality was about to begin ; indeed I was leading my maiden aunt , Josephine , to the top of the first country dance , a dance which she preferred above all ...
... happy returns of the day . " At length the evening arrived , and our conviviality was about to begin ; indeed I was leading my maiden aunt , Josephine , to the top of the first country dance , a dance which she preferred above all ...
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... happy returns of the day . " At length the evening arrived , and our conviviality was about to begin ; indeed I was leading my maiden aunt , Josephine , to the top of the first country dance , a dance which she preferred above all ...
... happy returns of the day . " At length the evening arrived , and our conviviality was about to begin ; indeed I was leading my maiden aunt , Josephine , to the top of the first country dance , a dance which she preferred above all ...
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... happy scene , could some of those who picture to themselves this race of beings as a miserable , un- happy , and oppressed people , have witnessed as I did thousands of their laughing faces , and have seen their healthy and contented ...
... happy scene , could some of those who picture to themselves this race of beings as a miserable , un- happy , and oppressed people , have witnessed as I did thousands of their laughing faces , and have seen their healthy and contented ...
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... happy scene , could some of those who picture to themselves this race of beings as a miserable , un- happy , and oppressed people , have witnessed as I did thousands of their laughing faces , and have seen their healthy and contented ...
... happy scene , could some of those who picture to themselves this race of beings as a miserable , un- happy , and oppressed people , have witnessed as I did thousands of their laughing faces , and have seen their healthy and contented ...
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... happy in their slavery ? " . Phillipson had no time to reply to my question , before our attention was attracted by a group of negroes standing round a black man who was sit- ting on a stone by the road side . He was the most miserable ...
... happy in their slavery ? " . Phillipson had no time to reply to my question , before our attention was attracted by a group of negroes standing round a black man who was sit- ting on a stone by the road side . He was the most miserable ...
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