Sugar in the Blood (51 page)

21
“agreeable, and not repugnant unto reason”:
Phillips 1990: 423.

22
“the twentieth part of all profits”:
Phillips 1990: 423.

23
“a drunken, vindictive tyrant”:
Gragg 1996–97: 4.

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“such great drunkards”:
Thomas Verney, quoted in Gragg 2003: 71.

25
“They settle their differences by fist fighting”:
Biet, quoted in Handler 1967: 68.

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“tough guys”:
Pares 1960: 15.

27
“This Island is the Dunghill”:
Henry Whistler, quoted in Firth 1900: 146.

28
“it is enough to believe that there is a God”:
Captain Holdip, quoted in Gragg 2003: 80.

29
“who live in pride, drunkenesse”:
Rous 1656: 1–8.

30
“The hard labour and want of victuals”:
Ligon 1657: 60.

31
“new men, for few or none of them that first set foot there”:
Ligon 1657: 54.

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“girls for sale”:
Pares 1960: 6.

33
“The soldiers of the London garrison visited various brothels”:
Gragg 2003: 167.

34
“a Baud brought ouer puts on a demur comportment”:
Whistler 1900: 146.

35
“roofs so low, as for the most part”:
Ligon 1657: 59.

36
“ill dyet they keep, and drinking”:
Ligon 1657: 31.

37
“We have felt his heavy hand in wrath”:
Richard Vines, quoted in Puckrein 1984: 192.

38
“Their sufferings being grown to a great height”:
Ligon 1657: 66.

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“the production of sugar is immense in this province”:
Marco Polo, quoted in Aykroyd 1967: 11.

2
“They died like fish in a bucket”:
Aykroyd 1967: 20.

3
“People the colour of the very night”:
Schwartz 2004: 37.

4
“At the time we landed on this island”:
This and the following extract from Ligon 1657: 119–20.

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“tyrant and murderer; and a public and implacable enemy”:
This and the following extracts from
history​learning​site.​co.​uk/​Charles​I_​execution.​htm
.

6
with cries of “God and the Cause!”:
Davis 1887: 113.

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“They did not see why they should not repair their fortunes”:
Davis 1887: 150.

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“that devout Zealot of the deeds of the devil”:
Davis 1887: 147.

9
“the profits of the said Estates to be disposed of by his Lordship”:
Davis 1887: 150.

10
“There must have been mounting in hot haste”:
Davis 1887: 209.

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“Despite those Loose and scandalous papers with much Industry”:
Davis 1887: 147.

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“wee shall be soe thinned of Christian people”:
Parker 2011: 147.

2
“If any Africans were carried away”:
Aykroyd 1967: 18.

3
“the men are very well timbered”:
This and the next extract from Ligon 1657: 73.

4
“intrinsically treacherous”:
These extracts from Ligon 1657: 75.

5
“go onto the next life without its head”:
Ligon 1657: 73.

6
“a new scale and intensity”:
Eltis, quoted in Beckles 2002: 13.

7
“the most magnificent drama”:
DuBois, quoted in Rediker 1997: 5.

8
“In the meanwhile, a burning Iron”:
William Bosman, quoted in Hartman 2007: 80.

9
“hold anything good in store for them”:
Paul Isert, quoted in Hartman 2007: 114.

10
“instruments of woe”:
Rediker 1997: 154.

11
“all the while oppressed and weighed down by grief”:
This and the following extracts from Equiano 1797: 53–54.

12
“carried to these white people’s country”:
Equiano 1797: 57.

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“the most important surviving piece of legislation”:
Dunn 1972: 239.

2
“a heathenish, brutish, uncertain and dangerous”:
Marshall 2009.

3
“liberal Code”:
Franklin Knight, quoted in Beckles 2002: 64.

4
“Whereas the Plantations and Estates of this Island”:
Phillips 1990: 427.

5
“many enormities were committed”:
Marshall 2009.

6
“straight from the ship like horses at a market”:
Ligon 1657: 68.

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“moment of rupture”:
Rediker 1997: 153.

8
“One dreadful shriek assaults”:
James Field Stanfield, quoted in Rediker 1997: 153.

9
“I can assure you”:
John Pinney, quoted in Pares 1950: 121.

10
“It is unnecessary I flatter myself”:
John Pinney, quoted in Pares 1950: 121.

11
“Slaves differed from other human beings”:
Patterson 1982: 5.

12
“were cannibals who were capturing them”:
Equiano 1791: 54.

13
“apt to die out of pure grief”:
This and the following extract from Davies 1666: 20.

14
“The English take very little care of their slaves”:
Labat 1957: 168.

1
“was accompanied to his ship”:
Handler 1967: 69.

2
“seasoned with sweet Herbs finely minc’d”:
Ligon 1657: 56.

3
“the richest and most splendid of all early West Indian Grandees”:
Craton 1991: 330.

4
“excellent Juice is of much more importance”:
Tryon 2009: 94.

5
“the more inconsiderable of the Inhabitants”:
Davies 1666: 198.

6
“the nursery for planting other places”:
Bridenbaugh 1968: 101.

7
“They are a perfect medley or hotch potch”:
Quoted in Watson 1997: 91.

8
“Carolina opened possibilities”:
Dunn 1972: 114.

9
“Barbados played a unique role”:
Hottens 1982: iv.

1
“a notably lethal crossroads”:
D. Phillip Morgan in Nussbaum 2003: 58.

2
“A few hours’ command of the sea”:
Pares 1950: 45.

3
“Suerly the Deuill”:
Colt 1925: 73.

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“international cockpit”:
Arciniegas 2004: 216.

5
the Foreign Legion of the Caribbean:
Arciniegas 2004: 178.

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they created a style of fighting that had not been seen before:
Arciniegas 2004: 194.

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“When a buccaneer is going to sea”:
Exquemelin, quoted in Lewis 2006: 83.

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“hang them from their genitals”:
Exquemelin, quoted in Lewis 2006: 65.

9
“not to call on him in the manner”:
Exquemelin, quoted in Lewis 2006: 56.

10
“They are very bad subjects”:
Jean Baptiste Ducasse, quoted in Latimer 2009: 109.

11
“If you roast me today”:
Beckles 1990: 49.

12
George Ashby’s will:
B. Arch. RB6:13, 3 Oct. 1672, proved 1676.

13
“Almost certainly the exports to England”:
Dunn 1969: 58.

14
“Like the terraced cane fields”:
Dunn 1969: 77.

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“The houses on the plantations are much better built”:
Labat 1957: 171.

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“splendid Planters, who for Sumptuous Houses”:
Dunn 1969: 58.

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“the largest trade in the New World”:
Labat 1957: 163.

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Barbados received between 2,000 and 3,000 negroes:
Davies, cited in Dunn 1969: 72.

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“One of the great Burdens of our Lives”:
Littleton, quoted in Dunn 1969: 73.

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“Thus sunny Barbados”:
Dunn 1969: 75.

1
“Barbadian character”:
Watson, quoted in Jemmott and Carter 1993: 37.

2
“perfectly ravished”:
Warren 2001: 6.

3
“The Earth in parts is extremely rich”:
Warren 2001: 8.

4
“were the principal cause of the rapid movement”:
Abbé Raynal, quoted in Aykroyd 1967: 31.

5
“Sugar, sugar, eh!”:
Aykroyd 1967: 44.

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“seemed to be much in a desponding way”:
Ragatz 1928: 113.

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“without any question”:
Schama 1989: 57.

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“The strongest colours could not paint”:
Kippis 1784: 5.

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“The whole face of the country”:
Admiral Rodney, quoted in Ludlum 1963: 140–42.

10
“the economic position of Barbados was still poor”:
Ragatz 1928: 21.

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“Children, in these West-India islands”:
Greene 2001: 143.

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“high theatre”:
Hochschild 2005: 50.

13
“the first great political book tour”:
Hochschild 2005: 169.

14
“the prejudices which had been hastily taken up”:
The Rev. John Duke, quoted in Handler 2005: 59.

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“new temper and ideas”:
Gaspar and Geggus 1997: 31.

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“In few other societies can the ideals of liberty”:
Gaspar and Geggus 1997: 3.

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“Have they not hung men”:
James 1980: 132.

18
“The white slaves in France”:
Gaspar and Geggus 1997: 12.

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“The God who creates the sun”:
Boukman, quoted in James 1980: 87.

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“in drinking, gaming and wenching”:
Ragatz 1928: 22.

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“the most simple forms of life”:
Edward Long, quoted in Buckley 1997: 230.

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“the only issue which seemed to have a unifying effect”:
Watson 1998: 18.

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“cultural action”:
Edward Brathwaite, quoted in Buckley 1997: 236.

24
“When I first came into this Country”:
Thomas Howard, quoted in Buckley 1997: 236.

1
“to guard their daughters against dapper braids wearers”:
Ragatz 1928: 97.

2
“stuffed to the gills with romantic nonsense”:
Moreau de Saint-Méry, quoted in Girod 1959: 31.

3
“I went one day to a sale of Negroes”:
Wyville 1975: 24.

4
“Instructions … offered to the Consideration of Proprietors”:
Quoted in Beckles 1998: 15.

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“You belong no massa”:
Lewis 2005: 69.

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“Your negroes are giving in to despair”:
Desalles 1996: 15.

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“the flower of all field battalions”:
Walvin 1993: 94.

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“It has often occurred to me that a gang of Negroes”:
Walvin 1993: 94.

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“as if they had never eaten before”:
Nugent 1966: 57.

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“I was one evening”:
Wyville 1975: 26.

11
“Caribbean slavery was, by every measure”:
Hochschild 2005: 65.

12
“If a stiller slips into a rum cistern”:
Pitman 1926: 48.

13
“Managing a sugar estate”:
Trevor Burnard, quoted in Walvin 2007: 126.

14
“submission to the state, in which”:
Rolph 2009: 165.

15
“after the greatest Captain that the world could produce”:
Lewis 2005: 123.

16
“The ceremony was performed with perfect gravity”:
Lewis 2005: 124.

17
“the slaves would probably have been better off”:
Kenneth Kiple, quoted in Handler and Jacoby 1993: 75.

18
“It was his constant practice”:
Lewis 2005: 323.

19
“Two of our sergeants came and informed me”:
Wyville 1975: 25.

20
“To be sold a mulatto man”:
Wyville 1975: 24.

21
“nowhere does time pass more slowly”:
Stuart 2004: 20.

22
“It is a sad society”:
Stuart 2004: 56.

1
“like a vessel traversing the ocean”:
Lieutenant Howard, quoted in Hochschild 2005: 274.

2
“Black, white, brown, all de same!”:
Gaspar and Geggus 1997: 14.

3
“attempts to get another Man into his Absolute Power”:
John Locke, quoted in Ball 1999: 31.

4
“every year we had eight, ten, twelve, and fourteen pregnancies”:
Desalles 1996: 71.

5
“Barbados contains fewer hiding places”:
Handler 1997: 190.

6
“Lydia Ann, aged 13 or 14 was suspected to be harboured”:
Handler 1997: 193.

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“nobody had done anything”:
This and the following quotes from Desalles 1996: 143.

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“They are fully persuaded they will return to Guinea”:
Senhouse 1988: 179.

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“In his very first days on the island”:
Walvin 2007: 113.

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“Had him well flogged and pickled”:
This and the following quotes from Hall 1989: 72.

11
“The whip is the soul of the colonies”:
Victor Schoelcher, quoted in
Vivre, survivre et être libre
(Fort de France, Martinique), 22 May–22 July 1998: 33.

12
“I was broken in body soul and spirit”:
Douglass 2003: 160.

13
“I lay down at night and rose up in the morning”:
Prince 2004: 16.