The Negro and Jamaica: Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, February 1, 1866, at St. James's Hall, London |
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The Negro and Jamaica: Read Before the Anthropological Society of London ... Bedford Pim No preview available - 2016 |
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African American amongst ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Baptist barbarism Bogle's British Captain Pim civilization classes coast of Africa colonists colony coloured COMMANDER BEDFORD PIM courts Crown doubt duty England equality Exeter Hall exists experience fact favour feeling free blacks George William Gordon Government Governor Eyre Hayti Haytian honour insurrection island Kingston labour land legislation letter Liberia Lord Lord Eustace Cecil Lord Mansfield MAGAZINE OF ANTHROPOLOGY Majesty's Majesty's Government Maroons martial law meeting ment miles minister moral Morant Bay murder native NEGRO AND JAMAICA negrophilists never observation officers opinion PATERNOSTER ROW Paul Bogle philanthropists planter POPULAR MAGAZINE population position possession present price One Shilling prisoners proclaimed proof prove race rebellion rebels religious remarks Republic respect ROYAL NAVY savage Sierra Leone slave-trade slavery slaves SOCIETY OF LONDON soon Spanish tion TRÜBNER Underhill Underhill's West Indies words
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Page 30 - Martial law is neither more nor less than the will of the general who commands the army. In fact martial law means no law at all...
Page 15 - Nothing saves these people from being infinitely ridiculous but the ' circumstance of their being often supremely disgusting by their ' fearful atrocities. The change from a ludicrous farce to a bloody ' tragedy is here as frequent...
Page 71 - THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE IF THIS BOOK 18 NOT RETURNED TO THE LIBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE NOTICES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES. I...
Page 51 - England or Ireland in which such death, stroke, poisoning, or hurt shall happen, in the same manner in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in that county or place.
Page 16 - ... interposition is vouchsafed in their behalf. In proportion as the recollections and traditions of the old colonial civilization are fading away, and the imitative propensity, which is so strong a characteristic of the African, is losing its opportunities of exercise, the black inhabitants of Hayti are reverting to the primitive state from which they were elevated by contact with the whites — a race whose innate superiority would seem to be abundantly proved by the mere fact that it is approaching...
Page 51 - ... provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from being tried in any place out of England or Ireland for any murder or manslaughter committed out of England or Ireland, in the same manner as such person might have been tried before the passing of this Act.