The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863. Various
so far as
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Negro of West Indian birth. Creole, used alone, signifies a West Indian white.
2
However, I should say that there are portions of Western Africa where trustworthy accounts give to the negroes a widely different and far more favorable character.
3
Mr. Underhill's account, so far as it goes, corroborates this description.
4
It will be understood that I speak only of his remarks upon the economical aspect of emancipation.
5
Different estimates conflict as to numbers, though all agreeing in the fact of an extensive and steady decline. I have used a statement which appeared trustworthy.
6
This was an absurd and wicked expedient for keeping him free from family interests.
7
This African epithet for the whites is said, in the original, to bear the complimentary signification of 'devil.'
8
This is partly owing to the unwillingness of continued from previous page: the negroes to remove to an unaccustomed place; but also, I think, to their rooted conviction that the only security for their independence is in having possession of the soil.
9
Hanover has about one nineteenth of the whole population of the island. But the economical condition of the parishes varies too widely to make that of any one a basis for a general estimate.
10
In common, they are by no means either so tawdry or so ostentatious as they have the credit of being.
11
A gradual change is, indeed, observable, but as yet, it is only an incipient one.