Showing papers in "Journal of Social History in 1970"

Ethnic Slave Rebellions in the Caribbean and the Guianas

Abstract: Master and slaves are in every respect opposite terms; the persons to whom they are applied, are natural enemies to each other. Slavery, in the manner and degree that it exists in our colonies, could never have been intended for the social state; for it supposes tyranny on one side, treachery and cunning on the other. Nor is it necessary to discuss which gives first occasion to the other. James Ramsay, An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (London, 1784), p. 173.