An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies |
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abuſe African allowance almoſt alſo anſwer becauſe behaviour benevolence beſt buſineſs cafe caſe cauſe Chriſtians circumſtance colonies confiderable confidered conſequence conſtitution cuſtom deſign diftinguiſh eaſy Engliſh eſpecially eſtabliſhed exerciſe expence favour firſt flavery flaves fuch fugar graſs happineſs horſe houſe humanity improvement increaſe indulgence induſtry inſtance inſtruction intereſt iſlands itſelf labour laſt leſs liberty loſe maſter ment miniſter moſt muſt nature neceffity neceſſary negroes obliged obſervation overſeer pariſhes particular perſons plantation planters pleaſed poliſhed poſe poſſible preſent progreſs propoſed punishment purpoſe raiſed reaſon religion reſpect reſt ſame ſavages ſave ſay SECT ſecurity ſee ſenſe ſenſible ſentiment ſeparate ſervants ſerved ſervice ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſituation ſkin ſlaves ſmall ſocial ſociety ſome ſometimes ſpirit ſpot ſtand ſtarved ſtate ſterling ſtill ſtock ſtrength ſubject ſucceſs ſuch ſuffer ſufficient ſugar ſuggeſted ſuperior ſupply ſupport ſuppoſe themſelves theſe thoſe tion univerſal uſe uſual whoſe wiſh wretch
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Page 68 - ... and cattle. The time allotted for this branch of work, and preparation of dinner, varies from an hour and an half, to near three hours.
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Page 68 - ... leathern thongs. The wretch, rather than be carried to judgment in another man's plantation, is fain to efcape with the lofs of his bundle, and often to put up quietly with a good drubbing from the robber into the bargain. The hour of delivering in his grafs, and renewing his talk, approaches, while hunger importunately folicits him to remember its call ; but he muft renew the irkfome toil, and fearch out fome green, fhady, unfrequented fpot, from which to repair his lols.
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Page 70 - Jo prepare fome fimple mefs for fupper, and to-morrow's breakfaft. This employs them till near midnight, and then they go to fleep till the bell calls them in the morning.
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Page 61 - Nay a horfe, a cow, or a fheepj is much better protected with us by the law, than a poor flave. For thefe, if found in a trefpafs, are not to be injured, but fecured for their owners; while a half ftarved negroe, may, for breaking a...
Page 67 - ... into the field. Their work is to manure, dig, and hoe, plow the ground, to plant, weed, and cut the cane, to bring it to the mill, to have the juice expressed, and boiled into sugar.
Page 69 - Ifraelites in Egypt, to cull, blade by blade, from among the weeds, their fcanty parcels of grafs. About feven o'clock in the evening, or later, according to the feafon of the year, when the overfeer can find leifure...