West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 68
... pregnant of me , Was fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel
aspersion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm
deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African
llave !
... pregnant of me , Was fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel
aspersion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm
deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African
llave !
الصفحة 105
... aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to negroe
huts and mulatto balls ; though a Creole was languishing on his death bed , I
believe the sound of the gumbay or violin would induce him to get up and dance
till ...
... aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to negroe
huts and mulatto balls ; though a Creole was languishing on his death bed , I
believe the sound of the gumbay or violin would induce him to get up and dance
till ...
الصفحة 106
... of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of
their intended spouses ready made before them , yet it does not hurt their
delicacy ; in one family I have seen white , mestee , quadroon and mulatto
children , all ...
... of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of
their intended spouses ready made before them , yet it does not hurt their
delicacy ; in one family I have seen white , mestee , quadroon and mulatto
children , all ...
الصفحة 123
A Sambo is of a footy dark brown colour , with hair or coarse wool , like that of a
negroe , but rather longer ; a Mulatto is of a yellow sickly colour , without the least
tincture of rosy bloom ; a Mestee is much fairer than a Mulaico , but of a fickly hue
...
A Sambo is of a footy dark brown colour , with hair or coarse wool , like that of a
negroe , but rather longer ; a Mulatto is of a yellow sickly colour , without the least
tincture of rosy bloom ; a Mestee is much fairer than a Mulaico , but of a fickly hue
...
الصفحة 140
... then if in one generation they change to Mulattoes , in all human probability , in
fifteen or twenty generations to come the descendants would be black . Blacks , I
contend , are human flesh and blood , and have souls and intellects as well as ...
... then if in one generation they change to Mulattoes , in all human probability , in
fifteen or twenty generations to come the descendants would be black . Blacks , I
contend , are human flesh and blood , and have souls and intellects as well as ...
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