Marly ; Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica |
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Page 42 - Massa," meaning the proprietor; and therefore, as she was his property, she formed part of himself, argal, what was his was hers; argal, she could not steal from him without stealing from herself, though she might take from him part of the conjunct property in communion between them, which however, in her opinion did not amount to theft; but was only her share of the common goods belonging to them.
Page 81 - While thus engaged, and before he had finished, he was interrupted by a rather strange sort of application, from an elderly negro woman, accompanied- by a young negro girl about sixteen or seventeen years of age, who she said was her daughter, requesting Marly to take this young girl for his wife, — the girls who live with the white people being so called.
Page 57 - Marly, notwithstanding, was not to be drummed into such a practice, however universal, by arguments, and his aversion to the black colour had not yet subsided so far as to induce him to make choice of any one of the negresses whom he had yet seen.
Page 294 - I new by de moke dat so gacefully cull'd, Abobe de geen ems dat a cottey was nee; And I said if dere's peace to be foun in dis wold, A ha't dat is umle mit ope for it hee. Ebry leap was at est, and I ha'd not a soun, But de Woodpecka tappin de ollow beet tee.
Page 49 - After supper however, the whites resumed their place in the room, when country dances commenced, in which the negro girls performed their part extremely well. They were very fond of the amusement, and among them there were numbers pretty well dressed, with pleasing countenances...
Page 14 - ... when they thought he was beyond hearing, he heard one of them exclaim to the others, " Eh ! mosquitoes, hab grandy nyamn on dat new buckra...
Page 53 - ... positive proof, he could not help thinking he had got into a land of savages, in place of among a much-injured and grievously oppressed race — injured and oppressed for no other reason but because Providence, in the wise dispensation of its power, had conferred on them a dark hue. — He, however, asked a negro girl who had bought part of the game, why she came to eat rats ? — She exclaimed, " Dey good nyamn for him neger, massa ! Him, Sir Charles Price, good nyamn for him neger, massa !...
Page 10 - so well understand his predilection for the language of his clan, that when they see a walking buckra seeking employment on any of the estates under his charge, they accost him with the question, 'Can you talk Gaelic? for if you can't, massa no employ you'
Page 48 - ... possessed, had been put into requisition, and was actually on their backs. They knew there could be no ball without them, They required no special invitation to attend, for all came as fast as they were able, and before the party at the dinner table arose, the hall was nearly filled with black bellefe, fo* only four brown beauties graced the plantation.
Page 54 - The negroes, however, who have none of these prejudices of our education to overcome, are very partial to rats, and have denominated them Sir Charles Price, thereby commemorating an event, that otherwise might have descended into oblivion, as I do not at present recollect to have seen it observed in any of the authors who have written respecting this island.