| Gad J. Heuman - 1986 - 230 sidor
...are sometimes sufficiently plagued with a parcel of slaves which come from a far in-land country who very innocently persuade one another that we buy them only to fatten and afterwards eat them . . . they resolve ... to run away from the ship, kill the Europeans and set... | |
| Hugh Thomas - 1997 - 916 sidor
..."37 Some slave captains found that there were a few slaves, usually from "a far inland country, who very innocently persuade one another that we buy them only to fatten and afterwards eat them as a delicacy." Captain Snelgrave tried to come face to face with these anxieties:... | |
| Daryl Cumber Dance - 2002 - 804 sidor
...Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders 1441-1907 • Following is the comment of a slave trader. 1 he slaves from up-country "very innocently persuade one...Europeans, and try to put the ship ashore or swim from it. THEODORE H. PARKER (^aution ! ! • From MMleton Harris, The Black Book • A poster apparently... | |
| Robin Law - 2004 - 324 sidor
...are sometimes sufficiently plagued with a parcel of slaves, which come from a far inland country, who very innocently persuade one another, that we buy them only to fatten and afterwards eat them as a delicacy', and the belief was still reported at Ouidah in the 1720s.163... | |
| Eric Robert Taylor - 2006 - 290 sidor
...As Willem Bosman wrote, "[W]e are sometimes sufficiently plagued with a parcel of Slaves . . . who very innocently persuade one another, that we buy them only to fatten and afterwards eat them as a Delicacy."39 The former slave Olaudah Equiano expressed precisely such... | |
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