Chapter I: Front Matter

ANTIGUA
AND THE ANTIGUANS:

A FULL ACCOUNT OF
THE COLONY AND ITS INHABITANTS
FROM THE TIME OF THE CARIBS
TO THE PRESENT DAY,
Interspersed with Anecdotes and Legends.

ALSO,

AN IMPARTIAL VIEW OF SLAVERY AND THE
FREE LABOUR SYSTEMS;
THE STATISTICS OF THE ISLAND,
AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES.

"Sworn to no party, of no sect am I."--Pope.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
1844.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Caribs: Domestic state--Treatment of their women--Children--
Their early tuition--Superstitious cruelties--Hatred of the
Arrowawks--Female children--Occupation of the men--Canoes--Bows
and arrows--Cottages--Cooking utensils--Native cloth--Food--
Fishing--Decoy fish--Spirituous liquors--Personal appearance--
Amusements--The Carib house--Extermination of the Caribs from
Antigua--Remarks upon their history

CHAPTER XXX.

Negroes: Their introduction into the New World--Bartholomew Las
Casas--His intercessions in favour of the Indians--Cardinal
Ximenes--Origin of the slave trade--Its adoption by the English
government--Character of slavery--Mental degeneracy--Instances
of superior faculties among the Negro race--Juan Parega--
Phillis Wheatley--Ignatius Sancho--His letter to the Rev. L.
Sterne--Slavery in its early days--Punishment of the negroes in
1736

CHAPTER XXXI.

Negroes: Palliations, _but not excuses_, for former cruelties--
A harsh planter--Crimes of slaves--The little negroes'
dinner-hour--A character--Negroes' want of thought--Bartering
their weekly provisions--Pilfering--The Rock Dungeon--A
Tortolian slave-master--The murdered slave--Branding--Slave
cargo--Remarks upon slavery--A good slave-master--A kind
attorney--Negro gratitude

CHAPTER XXXII.

Negroes: The assertion that negroes are careless of all
domestic ties confuted by anecdotes--"Shadows" of negro
character--Excuses for them--Conversion to Christianity--Belief
of the Africans that after death they shall return to Africa--
Instance of it--Africans and Creoles--Superstitions--Obeah

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Negroes: Superstition--Trials by ordeal--Flower-fence--Bible
and key--A way to recover stolen property--Charm to prevent a
scolding tongue--Jumbies--A night's adventure--The soldier's
last jump--Jumbies calls--Betsey, the nurse--The haunted house
--A cure--The drowning boys--The murdered woman--The jumby's
revenge

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Seeming paradoxes explained--Negro suspicion--Instances of it--
Stealing--Its various characters--Leasing--The dead canaries--
Broken promises--Idleness--Negro wages--Their present lot--
Domestics

CHAPTER XXXV.

Negroes: "Shadows" continued--The crime of murder--Instances of
it--Hon. Sam. Martin--Giles Blizard--Adam Ogilvie

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Negroes: The crime of poisoning--Instance of it--Murder of Mr.
Brown--Love and jealousy--The end of unlawful love--Infanticide
--Incendiarism--A late instance of it--Polygamy--Disregard of
marriage vows

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Negroes: A little change for the better--"Shadows nursed by
night retire"--Respect to age--Filial affection--Generosity--
Their kindness to the poorer class of whites--Cleanliness--the
opposite vice--Behaviour at church--A black exhorter--Reading
and writing--An anecdote

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Negroes: Their amusements--Natural ear for music--Singing--
Dancing--Subscription routs--Christmas balls--The ball-room
decorations--Ball dresses--Gentlemen's appearance--Ladies'--
Politeness--Supper, and the supper-table--The morning after a
ball--Cards of invitation--The "good night."

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Negroes: Fondness for "Nancy stories"--Negro loquacity--Their
signification of the word "cursing"--Markets--Confusion of
tongues--Weddings--The drive to church--Wedding banquet--
Blushing brides--Funerals--"Wake nights"--Funeral procession--
Christening--High-sounding names

CHAPTER XL.

Negroes: Further sentences upon "dress"--Sunday transformations
--The black cook and his metamorphosis--Christmas waits--Negro
houses--The mode of building upon estates--Town negro houses--
Architecture--The mode of moving houses

CHAPTER XLI.

Negroes: Occupations--Agricultural labourers--Black sailors--
Their excessive gormandizing--The hungry captain's
disappointment--Black cooks--"Melted butter"--A receipt for a
cookery book--The obtrusive fish--Grooms and "house boys"--An
old planter's opinion--Concluding remarks

CHAPTER XLII.

Negroes: Employment of the women--Washing--A scene at the pond
--Conversations--The sea-side--"Water frolic"--Hucksters--
"Damaged flour"--Female porters--Masculine appearance of some
of the females--Indelicacy--Their mode of carrying burdens

CHAPTER XLIII.

Negroes: Exterior appearance--Difference of expression--White
negroes (Albinos)--Description of one--Black and white negroes
--Negroes' "bulls and blunders"--Exchange is no robbery, or the
lost specimens--Negro politeness--Negro tongue--Inebriation--
Concluding remarks

CHAPTER XLIV.

Remarks upon free system--State of affairs before emancipation
--Trials and casualties--Improved price of land--Sugar estate
during slavery--Benefits of emancipation in the moral state of
the colony--Benefits arising to the planter--Pretended illness
among the negroes--Propositions in their favour--Decrease of
crime--Hopes indulged--"The first of August."

CHAPTER XLV.

A chapter on colour--Gradual removes from the negroes--Middle
classes--Personal appearance--Devotions at their mirrors--Style
of dress--Chapel belles--Passion for dress--Home and home
scenes--The young men--Extreme officiousness--Higher classes of
colour--Coloured Hebes--The chapel tea-party--Gastronomy and
speeches--Wesleyan bazaar, and lunch-table--Gastronomic relics

CHAPTER XLVI.

Prejudice--Its former and present character--An act of
resentment--The "Prejudice Bell"--Exclusion of persons of
colour from offices of trust and polished society--The dawn of
better days--The assertions of some authors contradicted--
Domestic character of the coloured gentry--Hospitality--A day
at a coloured gentleman's country-house--Dwellings--Marriages--
Great suppression of illicit connexions within these last few
years--Funerals--A scene of riot in former days--Provincialisms

CHAPTER XLVII.

Grades among the _pure in blood_--Aristocrats--The tribe
_fungi_--An overseer's duty--Managers and attorneys--Pickings
and gleanings--Managers' wives and managing ladies--
Aristocratic shops--"My daughters"--Education--"Field days" of
the militia--The Antiguan aide-de-camp

CHAPTER XLVIII.

The pure in blood--Aristocrats of the higher order--Law,
physic, and divinity--Merchants and planters--Proprietors'
dwellings--A day at a country-seat--Gastronomy--Beef--"Mary
Swift"--Mutton--Pork--Turtle and City aldermen--Christmas

CHAPTER XLIX.

The pure in blood--Places of amusement--The theatre--"Romeo
Coates"--Jugglers and rope-dancers--Maroon parties--Shooting
season--The Creole beauties--Dress--"The lords of the creation"
--Fops and foppery--Business hours--Scene at the Antigua
post-office--Auction sales--Militia doings--The gallant dragoon
--Guard-nights

CHAPTER L.

Zoology--Rabbits--Rats--Horned cattle--Horses--Mules--Asses--
Sheep--Goats--Domestic animals--Whales--Thrasher--Grampus--
Porpoise--Shark--Anecdote of the Young Creole--Death of the
sailor-boy--Remora--Pilot fish--Dolphins--Jew fish--Stingray--
Corramou--Beautiful colours displayed in fish--Parrot fish

CHAPTER LI.

Zoology: Orb-fish--Echinus, known to the ancients--Hippocampus
--Trumpet-fish--Toad-fish--Sea-blubber, and galley-fish--
Sea-polypus--Cat-fish--Crabs, oysters, &c.--Turtle--Land-crab--
Soldier-crab--Lizards--Guana--Wood-slave--Scorpions--Centipede
--Snakes--Tarantula--Cockroach--Caterpillars and butterflies--
Ants--Bats--Aquatic birds--Land birds--Humming bird--Anecdote

CHAPTER LII.

Botany

CHAPTER LIII.

Government--Governor-in-Chief--Council--Assembly--Government
officers--Judicial officers--Ecclesiastical establishments--
Schools--Fortifications and military defences--Revenue--Exports
and imports--Population returns

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