 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 páginas
...certain Whites called the Tenantry (attached by law to every estate in the same island), ' the greater part of them live in a state of complete idleness, and are ignorant and debauched to the last degree. Whole families of these free Whites depend for their subsistence... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1830 - 754 páginas
...comprehension even of the fourth estate of the realm. CHAPTER XLVII. - DOMESTIC AND TOWN SLAVES THEIR LIVES. " The greatest part of them live in a state of complete...usually ignorant and debauched to the last degree." Six Months in the West Indies. IN a preceding chapter I promised the reader that I would notice the... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 334 páginas
...of this derivation of the name. Near it is a curious palm, which has grown in a serpentine form on the surface of the earth, and by its prickly bark,...over the island to demand alms, and if you question T them about their mode of life and habits of daily labor, they stare in your face as if they were... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 páginas
...of ' The Six Months in the West Indies:'--" The militia is principally composed of 'these persons ; the greatest part of them live in a state of complete...usually ignorant and debauched to the last degree." Figure to yourself, if you-can without shuddering, the conduct of such a militia during martial law.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 páginas
...of the 'Six Months in the West Indies' — 'The militia is principally composed of these persons ; the greatest part of them live in a state of complete...usually ignorant, and debauched to the last degree.' " We will venture to ask if some traces of such a race have not begun to make their appearance in some... | |
 | Thomas Rolph - 1836 - 302 páginas
...these persons, and with the exception of that service, the greater part of them live in a state of idleness, and are usually ignorant and debauched to...them about their mode of life and habits of daily labour, they stare in your face as if they were actually unable to comprehend the meaning of your discourse.... | |
 | John Western - 1992 - 346 páginas
...widely throughout the ex-colonial world to ex-slaves. Indeed, they were worse than the slaves, because, the greatest part of them live in a state of complete...usually ignorant and debauched to the last degree. ... It is notorious that in many cases whole families of these "free whites" depend for their subsistence... | |
 | Donald Harman Akenson - 2005 - 850 páginas
...backward, educationally resistant. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited Barbados in 1825, he observed: The greatest part of them live in a state of complete...them about their mode of life and habits of daily labour, they stare in your face as if they were actually unable to comprehend the meaning of your discourse.... | |
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The militia is principally composed of these persons, and with the exception of that service, the greatest part of them live in a state of complete idleness, and are usually ignorant and debauched to the last degree. 