Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, from the Years 1772 to 1777 ...University of Massachusetts Press, 1972 - 480 pages |
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Page 66
... pieces . So alarming a piece of intelligence could not fail to throw the whole colony once more into the utmost confusion and con- sternation . The above gentleman , whose name was Lepper , and only a lieutenant , was in a great measure ...
... pieces . So alarming a piece of intelligence could not fail to throw the whole colony once more into the utmost confusion and con- sternation . The above gentleman , whose name was Lepper , and only a lieutenant , was in a great measure ...
Page 172
... pieces , if not part of the body . A hatchet is generally kept ready to chop off the limb , before the working of the mill can be stopped . Another danger is , that should a poor slave dare to taste that sugar which he produces by the ...
... pieces , if not part of the body . A hatchet is generally kept ready to chop off the limb , before the working of the mill can be stopped . Another danger is , that should a poor slave dare to taste that sugar which he produces by the ...
Page 343
... piece was just going to fire at him , when the man called out , holding up his Chapter 25 hand , " What , Sir , do you ... pieces with sabres , by Bonny's command , as two others had been before we took Gado - Saby . On the 6th of May it ...
... piece was just going to fire at him , when the man called out , holding up his Chapter 25 hand , " What , Sir , do you ... pieces with sabres , by Bonny's command , as two others had been before we took Gado - Saby . On the 6th of May it ...
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