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“for over-indulgence to my own negroes!”:
Lewis 2005: 236.
15
“conspicuously liberal”:
This and the following quotes from Stephen 1824. 183
“I arrived in Martinique”:
Governor Fenlon, quoted in Cohen 1980: 104.
1
“The greatest drawback”:
Lewis 2005: 150.
2
“Certainly, if a man was desirous of leading a life of vice here”:
Lewis 2005: 150. 186
“Both blacks and whites knew each other well”:
Watson 1998: 210.
3
“He who should presume”:
Edward Long, quoted in Jordan 2003: 647.
4
“The slave girl is reared”:
Jacobs 2000: 57.
5
“That which commands admiration”:
This and the following quotes from Jacobs 2000: 30–31.
6
“Sable Venus”:
This and the following quotes from Quintanilla 2003.
7
“I have observed many instances”:
Waller 1820: 148.
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“in a vulgar corrupt dialect”:
Waller 1820: 120.
1
“Genealogical trees do not flourish amongst slaves”:
Douglass 2003: 30.
2
“For they carry burdens on their backs”:
Ligon 1657: 69.
3
“The slave mother can be spared long enough”:
Douglass 2003: 42.
4
“The practice of separating children from their mothers”:
Douglass 2003: 32.
5
“Men do not love those who remind them of their sins”:
Douglass 2003: 46.
6
“Interracial sex was said to be a violation”:
Ball 2001: 25.
7
“the crowds of Mullatoes”:
Schaw 1921: 112.
8
“The rage of a creole is most violent”:
Wyville 1975: 26.
9
“Brothers and sisters we were by blood”:
Douglass 2003: 39.
10
“There is not, beneath the sky”:
Douglass 2003: 47.
11
“This was the happiest period”:
Prince 2004: 7.
12
“born for another’s benefit”:
Douglass 2003: 37.
13
“I was a slave—born a slave”:
Douglass 2003: 37.
14
“What are [Bonaparte] and his ruffians”:
James Stephen, quoted in Blackburn 1988: 313.
15
“In 1805 the slave population of the French-controlled Caribbean”:
Blackburn 1988: 300.
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“on principles contrary to justice”:
Blackburn 1988: 311.
17
“Let all the Negroes have sufficient provisions”:
Clarkson 1807.
1
“be kept in the profoundest ignorance”:
This and the following quote from Jemmott and Carter 1993: 36.
2
“Persons live and die in the midst of Negroes”:
Clarke 2005: 229.
3
“They have no fellow feeling with the slaves”:
Thome and Kimball, quoted in Cummerbatch 2008: 226.
4
“I could grow, though I could not become a man”:
Douglass 2003: 224.
5
“a kind of right to be idle”:
Watson 2000: 18.
6
“is impossible to generalize”:
Orlando Patterson, quoted in Watson 2000: 7.
7
“I have often sung to drown my sorrow”:
Douglass 2003: 76.
8
“They avail themselves of the passions and prejudices”:
Clarke 2005: 154.
9
“Let him [the slave] be taught to revere God”:
Peter Beckford, in Pitman 1926: 64.
10
“Jack, a light-skinned carpenter”:
Handler 1997: 195.
11
“not to let a slave be corrected in his presence”:
Pares 1960: 122.
12
“To make the negro think about all these ideas”:
This and the following quotes from Desalles 1996: 126.
13
“something brewing up in their minds”:
Beckles 1998: 10.
14
“I consider my property reduced”:
Pares 1950: 121.
15
“Ideologically, the colony was in deepening crisis”:
Beckles 1998: 12.
1
“was remarkable for having yielded”:
Beckles 1998: 17.
2
“severe disciplinarian”:
Morris 2000: 3.
3
“[It] is those slaves”:
John Vaughan, quoted in Beckles 1998: 21.
4
“insurrection was entirely owing to these hopes”:
Beckles 1998: 23.
5
“It was about twelve o’clock”:
Beckles 1998: 29.
6
“were quickly dispersed”:
Beckles 1998: 29.
7
“Large quantities of canes”:
Best, quoted in Beckles 1998: 32.
8
“The insurgents did not think”:
Beckles 1998: 33.
9
“conflagrations had ceased”:
Beckles 1998: 34.
10
“By these means the planters hoped”:
Beckles 1998: 38.
11
“The disposition of the slaves in general”:
Beckles 1998: 40.
12
“Murder was to have been”:
Beckles 1998: 40.
1
“there existed no plan”:
Wilberforce, quoted in Blackburn 1988: 324.
2
The yearly returns:
Colonial Slaves and Compensation Records, PRO T.71. 236
“A court martial to be held at Town Hall”: JBHMS
2: 117.
3
“fees for the relief”:
B. Arch. Vestry minutes 1832.
4
“Ladies’ Associations … did everything”:
Hochschild 2005: 327.
5
“By buying sugar we participate in the crime”:
Heyrick, quoted in Abbott 2009: 251.
6
“Yes, and I shouldn’t much care if”:
D’Egville Case,
JBHMS
8: 125.
7
“Everywhere people are asking me about immediate abolition”:
Clarkson, quoted in Hochschild 2005: 324.
8
“It is dreadful to think after my brother and his friends”:
Clarkson’s deathbed speech, quoted in Hochschild 2005: 332.
9
“the sun took on a decidedly blue appearance”:
Ludlum 1963: 140–42.
10
“the best and most economical means”:
Vestry Records 22/8/1831.
11
“late awful hurricane”:
Vestry Records 22/8/1831.
12
“the most intelligent and remarkable slave”:
Henry Bleby, quoted in Hochschild 2005: 342–43.
13
“I know I shall die”:
Hochschild 2005: 341.
14
“Generally four, seldom less than three”:
Bleby, quoted in Hochschild 2005: 341–42.
15
“I would rather die upon yonder gallows”:
Hochschild 2005: 343.
16
“Know all Men by these Presents, That I Robert Cooper Ashby”:
BDA: Book of Powers Index; 1832 Manumission of Sukey Ann and others RB 7/26.
17
“I feel great sorrow when I hear some people”:
Prince 2004: 26.
18
“As England is avowedly the author”:
This and the following quotes from Beckles 1990: 127.
19
“We should like to know”:
Editorial in
The Barbadian
, from Gopert and Handler 1974.
20
“800,000 human beings lay down last night as slaves”:
William Hart Coleridge, Bishop of Barbados, quoted in Wilder 1994: 32.
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The baptism record:
BDA: RL/17 and 18, Box no. 1157931.
2
“Many of our children who are now grown”:
Newton 2008: 66.
3
“We were kindly invited”:
This and the following quotes from Thome and Kimball 1838: 61–62.
4
“The monster is dead!”:
William Knibb, quoted in Abbott 2009: 263.
5
“Died on 18 [of this month]”: The Barbadian
newspaper, quoted in
JBHMS
8: 164.
6
Robert Cooper Ashby’s last will and testament:
B. Arch RB4/69:81 dated 4 November 1837, proved 30 October 1839.
7
“The first wish of my heart”:
Jacob Hinds, quoted in Hughes 2006: 14.
8
“They all carried the badge of colour”:
Morris 2008: 5.
9
“One of the most important legacies of the plantation culture”:
Morris 2008: 2. 263
“the home class of ministers”:
Ball 2001: 14.
1
“We are sensitive in Barbados”: Barbados Weekly Herald
, quoted in Watkins-Owens 1996: 21.
2
“Between 1900 and 1930 some 40,000 immigrants of African descent”:
Watkins-Owens 1996: 1.
3
“a little fat, black man”:
DuBois, quoted in Watkins-Owens 1996: 119.
4
“On coming to the United States the West Indian”:
Eric Walrond, quoted in Philipson 2006: 4.
5
“Aframericans who, long deracinated, were still rootless among phantoms”:
Claude Mckay, quoted in Philipson 2006: 8.
6
“little less than a corner of hell”:
This and the next quote from the Rev. Charles Morris in Watkins-Owens 2001: 32.
1
“She was good at it”:
Interview with Barbara Stuart née Ashby, 2008.
2
“She was so glamorous”:
Interview with Barbara Stuart née Ashby, 2008.
3
“Quite early, I felt my father’s vulnerability”:
Interview with Barbara Stuart née Ashby, 2008.
4
“Do you know who that guy is?”:
Interview with Trevor Ashby, 2005.
5
“It’s a great life”:
Interview with Trevor Ashby, 2005.
1
“for children of the better classes”:
Stafford 2005: 272. 289
“The school intended to supply”:
Stafford 2005: 120.
2
“a good knowledge of the Greek classics”:
Stafford 2005: 256. 290
“Colonialism was not just an economic”:
Carmichael 1996: 198. 290
“Turn sideways now and let them see”:
H. A. Vaughan, quoted in Carmichael 1996: 248.
3
“Today I shudder to think how a country so foreign”:
George Lamming, quoted in Carmichael 1996: 198.
4
“Garvey’s politics, more than any other single factor”:
Beckles 1990: 223.
5
“restrain or subdue the rebels”:
Beckles 1990: 238.
6
“open wounds of colonisation”:
Beckles 1990: 245.
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“to provide political expression”:
Beckles 1990: 245.
8
“I suggest that the plantation system is basically the cause of our trouble”:
Grantley Adams, quoted in Beckles 1990: 250.
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only if he was white:
Stafford 2005: 190.
10
“Throughout the history of this island”:
This and the following extract from the
Barbados Observer
quoted in Beckles 1990: 254.
1
“the road to destiny”:
Hoyos 1978: 242.
2
“Others, notably the South Americans”:
Hoyos 1978: 188.
3
“the colony owes much of its increasing prosperity”:
The Colonial Secretary, quoted in Hoyos 1978: 188. 314
the Barbadian economic miracle:
Blackman 1998: 61–68.
4
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Quoted in Douglas Botting,
Rio de Janeiro
(Time-Life Books, 1997).
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