| Robin Blackburn - 1998 - 612 páginas
...writes: The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their master for ever, are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants, who are theirs...are put to very hard labour, ill lodging and their diet is very light." Du Tertre claims a similar pattern for the French islands: The harsh manner of... | |
| William Oliver Strunk - 1998 - 1584 páginas
...slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their masters for ever, are kept and preserv'd with greater care than the servants, who are theirs...for five years, according to the law of the Island. ... It has been accounted a strange thing that the negroes, being more than double the numbers of the... | |
| Thomas W. Krise - 2009 - 372 páginas
...greater care then the servants, who are theirs but for five yeers, according to the law of the Hand. So that for the time, the servants have the worser...very hard labour, ill lodging, and their dyet very sleight. When we came first on the Hand, some Planters themselves did not eate bone meat, above twice... | |
| Richard B. Sheridan - 1994 - 572 páginas
...wrote that the slaves in Barbados were 'kept and preserv'd with greater care than the servants, who ... are put to very hard labour, ill lodging, and their dyet very sleight'.27 Another Barbadian inspected numerous plantations and found that slaves were being trained... | |
| Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 788 páginas
...there but for five years according to the law of the Island. For the time the servants have the worse lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill lodging, and their diet very slight . . .21 The servants were normally given no meat. Their diet was potatoes, bonavist22... | |
| Derek Hughes - 2007 - 371 páginas
...greater care then the servants, who are theirs but for five yeers, according to the law of the Hand. So that for the time, the servants have the worser...very hard labour, ill lodging, and their dyet very sleight. When we came first on the Hand, some Planters themselves did not eate bone meat, above twice... | |
| Don Jordan, Michael Walsh - 2008 - 322 páginas
...slaves. The slaves and their posterity being subject to their masters for ever, are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants, who are theirs...island. So that for the time the servants have the worst lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill lodging, and their diet very slight. This is... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 638 páginas
...to their masters forever, hre kept and preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for five years, according to the law of the island...worser lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill-lodging, and their diet very slight. Truly I have seen such cruelty there done to servants, as... | |
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