Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, Volumen1Colburn and Company, 1852 |
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Página 317 - blue chintz, striped with white, a most indescribable philibeg, black legs of course, and white socks bound with dirty pink ribbon. There were also two grand processions, having triumphal "wans," one of which was to commemorate the recent marriage of a high law-officer ; the other, judging from the royal arms in front (worth a guinea of anybody's money, if only for the
Página 181 - Well, den, massa, if I do, you mos pay me higher."* With these consequences staring him in the face, he must be a bold man indeed who would take unimproved land in Trinidad. " Here," said a lady to me, " it is the white who is the slave to the black,
Página 180 - whilst artisans and street labourers are paid in proportion, when you can get them so far to favour you as to work at all. More than once have I heard a carman say to his employer since no labourer of this class will receive weekly or monthly wages, " Massa, I no work for you no more
Página 180 - the independent negro in this style, "Come, now, my good fellow, you must take another turn or two; remember how many dollars you have already received from me to-day. Come, there's a good fellow, do." " Well, den, massa, if I do, you
Página 314 - I disclaim any party. I am neither an emancipationist, nor an upholder of slavery. I have no interest in the matter either way ; but, from observation, I feel assured that for negroes a restricted freedom is necessary, for they have not the judgment to conduct themselves properly, as white freemen would do; nor are they, in consequence, entitled to the same privileges.
Página 210 - are cold, selfish, and full of ridiculous pretension, without qualifications of any sort to justify it. There are very few Irish in Trinidad, and those very low ones. There is an utter want of principle amongst all classes, and
Página 252 - much prejudiced a person may come out in favour of the negroes, or may have believed them to have been wronged, or to be capable of improvement ; no sooner does he see the innate brutality of their
Página 317 - lion looking like a recently drowned puppy), and a canopy of red glazed calico, trimmed with silver tinsel, shading a royal pair, who, in conscious majesty, sat within, represented the Sovereign pair of England. This brilliant
Página 278 - from the coast of Africa, with a cargo of one hundred and fifty men, thirty-seven women, and two hundred and fifty-four children of both