Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West IndiesPress of M. Day, 1840 - 203 páginas A visit to some of the Leeward islands and Cuba, with a more extended description of Jamaica. |
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Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West ... Joseph John Gurney Visualização completa - 1840 |
Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West ... Joseph John Gurney Visualização completa - 1840 |
Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West ... Joseph John Gurney Visualização completa - 1840 |
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act of emancipation afford African afterwards agreeable American Antigua appearance apprenticeship attended Baptist beauty believe British called cane chapel Christian church circumstances coast coffee colonies colored comfort cottages course Cuba cultivation DEAR FRIEND delightful district Dominica estates excellent favorable feelings free laborers freedom Governor harbor Havana Henry Clay hill hogsheads hundred increase interest island Jamaica JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY kind kindly Kingston land large number LETTER London Missionary Society luxuriant magistrates meeting for worship ment Methodist miles missionaries Montego Bay moral morning mountains negroes observed occasion ourselves overseer parish peasantry persons picturesque planters population port present proprietors prosperity provision grounds religious remarkable rent respecting road Santa Cruz scene ship Sixth-month June slave trade slavery Spanishtown sterling stipendiary sugar Third-month March Thomas Burchell tion Tortola town treadwheel tree vessels Virgin Gorda voyage wages week West Indies
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