 The island is divided into three sorts of men, viz. masters, servants, and 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 but for five years,...  Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825 - Pagina 40door Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 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 - 636 pagina’s
...assigns for the same wickedness in the French islands. ' The slaves and their posterity (says Ligon) being subject to their masters for ever, are kept...preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for rive years, according to the law of the island ; so that, for the time, the servants... | |
 | 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 - 646 pagina’s
...islands. ' The slaves and their posterity (says Ligou) being subject to their masters for ever, Q 2 are are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for five years, according to the law of the island ; so that, for the time, the servants... | |
 | William Moister - 1883 - 432 pagina’s
...divided into three sorts of men ; viz., masters, servants, and slaves. The slaves and their absolute posterity, being subject to their masters for ever,...with greater care than the servants who are theirs bat for five years, according to the law of the island ; so that for the time the servants have the... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1901 - 592 pagina’s
...the service at five years. " The island is divided into three sorts of men, viz. masters, servants, and slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being...preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for rive years, according to the law of the island. . . For the time the servants have the... | |
 | 1902 - 720 pagina’s
...miserable than that of thu agricultural labourer in Europe at that time. Hear what Ligon says in 1650 : " The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their...theirs but for five years, according to the law of the land, so that for the time the servImts have the worser lives, for they are put to every hard labour,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1903 - 420 pagina’s
...the service at five years. "The island is divided into three sorts of men, viz. masters, servants, and slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being...preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for five years, according to the law of the island. . . . For the time the servants have... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...infected the water, so that many were supposed to have died in consequence of drinking it. Q 2 are are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants who are there but for five years, according to the law of the island ; so that, for the time, the servants... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 pagina’s
...the table. (BARBADOS SOCIETY] The Hand is divided into three sorts of men, viz. Masters, Servants, and slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their Masters for ever; are kept and preferv'd with greater care then the servants, who are theirs but for five yeers, according to the... | |
 | Robin Blackburn - 1998 - 612 pagina’s
...contemporaries. Richard Ligon writes: The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their master for ever, are kept and preserved with greater care...have the worser lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill lodging and their diet is very light." Du Tertre claims a similar pattern for the French... | |
 | William Oliver Strunk - 1998 - 1584 pagina’s
...in one woman. The island [of Barbados] is divided into three sorts of men, viz., masters, servants, and 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 but for five years, according to the... | |
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