A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies Or An Exam
A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies Or An Exam
Alexander Barclay
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) There was little need to go to Hindostan for a case of this kind, as every labourer in England is a slave on the same terms ; but, after all, Mr. S. Is not far wrong, for slavery and servitude are presumed to bestow a curse on the house-woman, ( Old Dolly, ' for the un- necessary trouble he thought she was giving him. The lecture she read him on the occasion astonished me ; and it would have mere astonished Mr. S. , who thinks ' that every negro or mulatto, even although free, is far more * d...egraded below the lowest while person in Jamaica, than the poorest pea- * sant in this country is below our nobility. ' (p. 184. ) It was to this eflect, and uttered with a contempt which, to be conceived, must have been seen and heard : ' You, a, poor good-for-nothing Buckra, take upon yourself to curse 'me! Wharra you? Wharra make you come in'o massa plantation for ' n'yam (to eat) ? Wharra ! yon talk so to me! Me have for me house, for me ' ground, for me nigger ; Avhere fa? you house, for you ground, for you ni^- * ger ?
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