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absentee proprietor afterwards amongst amount Ann's attor attorney barbarous Bloxburgh boiling-house book-keeper brutal Buckra busha called cane cane-holes cane-pieces cattle charge Cherry Garden colony compelled complain crop cruelty cultivation dared death destroyed discharge Donald Ross driver emigrants employed executor fact flesh flogged ground habits head Hopewell Hopewell Estate island Jamaica jobbing gang kill labourers land lash Latium leave lived Lord Mulgrave magistrate manner manure martial law massa ment militia Moneague Montego Bay months morning named negroes never night observed occasion old planters ordered overseer overseer's Parish of St Parish of Trelawney pasture pen-keeper persecution persons planters planting poor pounds practised prietor provisions punishment purchase racter remarks residence Rodney Hall ruin seer sent servants slavery slaves Spring Vale still-house Stirling Castle stop sugar thing tion told whip whole William Miller
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Page 292 - M'Mahon has left us an account of what happened in these early peer group associations: The inbred arrogance of a white child brought up among black children is painfully pressed upon the observation of a person unaccustomed to such a land of tyranny as a slave colony always is. At even two years of age the black child cowers and shrinks before the white child, who at all times slaps and beats it at pleasure and takes away its toys without the smallest manifestation of opposition on the part of the...
Page 292 - ... is painfully pressed upon the observation of a person unaccustomed to such a land of tyranny as a slave colony always is. At even two years of age the black child cowers and shrinks before the white child, who at all times slaps and beats it at pleasure and takes away its toys without the smallest manifestation of opposition on the part of the piccaninni. I have frequently seen a white child crying, when the little slave, so utterly a slave from his birth, would say to the crying child, - 'Massa,...
Page 174 - Immediately after this, the worthy estate's attorney selects for himself some fine bred horses and draft mules He takes them at the same price as what he paid for the common mules for the estates; and, in a month or two after, he sells them for three times the amount he paid for them. By this piece of policy he makes fully five hundred a year out of the pen-keeper. Such transactions are termed in Jamaica, " hand go, hand come;" meaning, if you assist me, I will assist you.
Page 19 - Bloxbnrgh, was to rise every morning at or before four o'clock AM and go straight to the field, and call the list of the slaves in the gang by the light of a torch; and if any one was absent when his name was called, a most unmerciful flogging was his portion. If he happened to have on clean clothes, although they might be only rags he was sure to...
Page 76 - He was always in good humour, and there was no flogging on the estate by his orders—whatever took place in that way was by the drivers or book-keepers. His kindness and humanity to the sick was most exemplary. He was at length removed from hence to Petersfield, in St. Thomas-in-the-East, to the mortification and regret of white and black. Mr. Gladwidge was succeeded by Mr. Robert Grey Kirkland, a gentleman of considerable abilities, a clever planter, a strict disciplinarian, but judicious and humane...
Page 55 - Sarah was laid in a cold grave. This murder took place close to the residence of two magistrates, but, as they were perhaps doing quite as bad themselves, no notice was taken of this.
Page 17 - On my arrival in Jamaica, a gentleman named Burke who kept a druggist's shop in Kingston, got me a berth in the planting line. I was employed at Bloxburgh Coffee Plantation, in the Port Royal Mountains: there were nearly 300 slaves upon it. The first morning I went to the field I was accompanied by another bookkeeper. I observed...
Page 172 - Let it be understood that pen-keepers, in Jamaica, mean graziers, who are generally either attorneys, or old overseers, who made their fortunes while in charge of properties belonging to their absentee proprietors.
Page 120 - Latimu estate, when a young woman in the last stage of pregnancy was brought before him, for refusing to continue at work. He threatened to send her to the house of correction; on which she alluded to the state she was in, and openly reminded him that he was the father of the child ! But the following story, which was related to me on very good authority, is much worse.
Page 14 - Jamaica in thebegiuning of June. I must mention that, while I was in Margueritta, I had an opportunity of seeing nearly all the inhabitants who had formerly been slaves, and who had only been made free a few months before I got there. I believe I can safely say, that...