...malice and their power, that, though knowing the havock they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and others,...terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this boon, and he sinks a martyr to imagined evils. The author knew an instance of a negro, who, being reduced...

...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and, others...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this...

...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and, others...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this...

...league with them for sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this boon, and he sinks a martyr to imagined evils. A negro, in short, considers himself as no longer under...

...Stewart acknowledges as much: "so much do the negroes stand in awe of those obeah professors... that a negro under this infatuation can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian."2 1 John Stewart, A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica (Edinburgh,...

...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and others,...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro under the infatuation of Obeah can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this...