An History of Jamaica: With Observations on the Climate, Scenery, Trade, Productions, Negroes, Slave Trade, Diseases of Europeans, Customs, Manners, Snd Dispositions of the Inhabitants : to which is Added, an Illustration of the Advantages which are Likely to Result from the Abolition of the Slave TradeJ. Cawthorn, 1807 - 333 страници |
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... employ their time , in il- lustrating the history of the countries which they visit ; and , by studying the condition and manners of the inhabitants , they might be , in some measure , enabled , to propose plans for the melioration of ...
... employ their time , in il- lustrating the history of the countries which they visit ; and , by studying the condition and manners of the inhabitants , they might be , in some measure , enabled , to propose plans for the melioration of ...
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... employed , to estimate the produc- tions of a Hume , a Robertson , or a Gibbon ; that he will not be ridiculed , for not having produced a voluminous work , capable of conveying his name , with respect , to posterity . Would it not be ...
... employed , to estimate the produc- tions of a Hume , a Robertson , or a Gibbon ; that he will not be ridiculed , for not having produced a voluminous work , capable of conveying his name , with respect , to posterity . Would it not be ...
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... employed to fight for a master . Wealth , sud- denly acquired , is seldom husbanded with prudence ; and the profusion of the Buccaniers increased the riches , and stimu- lated the exertions of the planters and merchants of Jamaica ...
... employed to fight for a master . Wealth , sud- denly acquired , is seldom husbanded with prudence ; and the profusion of the Buccaniers increased the riches , and stimu- lated the exertions of the planters and merchants of Jamaica ...
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... employed in this arduous and inglorious contest , and were of great service in tracing the haunts of the Maroons , and in discovering their settlements and provision - grounds . Cud- joe , after several skirmishes with these troops , in ...
... employed in this arduous and inglorious contest , and were of great service in tracing the haunts of the Maroons , and in discovering their settlements and provision - grounds . Cud- joe , after several skirmishes with these troops , in ...
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... employed to fell trees , in order that posts , at convenient distances , might be established . Many partial skirmishes took place , in all of which , the Maroons had the manifest superiority , no fewer than seventy of the assailants ...
... employed to fell trees , in order that posts , at convenient distances , might be established . Many partial skirmishes took place , in all of which , the Maroons had the manifest superiority , no fewer than seventy of the assailants ...
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abolition administration advantages African appear assize court attend authority aforesaid barrels become Britain British Buccaniers called canes casks climate Colonel colonies colonists colour commerce conduct consequence considerable costiveness court Cudjoe cultivation disease Domingo England English equally European excited expence feet further enacted governor happiness hereby hhds HISTORY OF JAMAICA honour horse house of assembly hundred increase Indians island Jamaica justices and vestry Kingston labour land manner Maroons master melasses mother country mountains Mulatto mule native nature necessary Negroes never offence overseer owner peace penalty pimento plant plantation planters Port Royal possessed pounds pounds sterling pounds weight present produce proprietor punishment quantity respect runaway settlers shillings ships situation slave or slaves slave-trade slavery soil soon Spaniards Spanish suffer sufficient sugar thereof thousand tion town trade trees troops valuable wealth West India white inhabitants white person William Beeston workhouse
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