The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of practiceJ. Butterworth and Son, 1830 |
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Seite 325 - Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Seite 325 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick : and, behold, thy servants are beaten ; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle : therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord. Go therefore now, and work ; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Seite 326 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Seite 51 - The pleasant life of the island was at an end ; the dream in the shade by day ; the slumber during the sultry noontide heat by the fountain or the stream, or under the spreading palmtree...
Seite 86 - At four o'clock in the morning the plantation bell rings to call the slaves into the field. Their work is to manure, dig, and hoe, plow the ground, to plant, weed and cut the cane, to bring it to the mill, to have the juice expressed, and boiled into sugar.
Seite xxi - I did, only from the evidence adduced ; the uacontroverted part of which was briefly as follows. ' The deceased had been visiting a certain estate in his usual routine as its medical attendant ; and after seeing the patients, mounted his horse, to return to his residence in town. A negro of the estate the same morning brought in the horse with the saddle and bridle on, saying that he had found it grazing in one of the cane pieces ; and the manager thereupon ordered it to be put into the stable ;...
Seite 195 - Hue, it is obvious that the work of the latter must be suspended; or else, such part of the trench as is passed over by the former will be more imperfectly formed than the rest. It is therefore the business of the drivers, not only to urge forward the whole gang with sufficient speed, but sedulously to watch that all in the line, whether male or female, old or young, strong or feeble, work as nearly as possible in equal time, and with equal effect. The tardy stroke must be quickened, and the languid...
Seite 289 - Certain weights of native provisions, not as additions, but further alternatives, were also prescribed ; and with them, or with either of these rations, one pound and a quarter of herrings, shads, mackerel, or other salted provisions, per week ; and the act allowed a reduction of one-fifth part of these scanty allowances in crop-time ; ie during five months of the twelve.
Seite 4 - I mean the truly enormous amount of labour to which the ßeU negroes, or ordinary plantation slaves, are coerced; and the almost incredible degree of parsimony with which they are maintained. Most of the other sufferings incident to their hapless state are casual and temporary; but these are certain and perennial; and though mitigated in a small degree under the more liberal of their owners, are, to a great and grievous extent, their universal lot.
Seite 258 - Their attempts to wield the hoe prove abortive ; they shrink from their toil; and, being urged to perseverance by stripes, you are soon obliged to receive them into the hospital ; whence, unless your plan be speedily corrected, they depart but to the grave.