Primary sources Flashcards
J. Ramsay
“the farther back a Negro could trace his creolism, the more he valued himself”
John Stewart, creolisation/music (young creoles)
young creoles liked to copy their masters and mistresses, dance country dance to violin, tambourine
De La Beche
one African “wore a white mask no his face”, and that the play referenced Richard the III
Maria Nugent, creolisation/dance
danced with an old black man which shocked her british friends to the extent that they were “nearly fainting”
Labat on the Calinda
“the spanish have learned it from the [black people] and they dance it all over America just as the [black people] do”
John Stewart, creolisation/dance
drums had a “deafening noise”
Long, creolisation/language
africans spoke their “respective dialects, with some mixture of broken english”
Maria Nugent, creolisation/language
“the creole language is not confined to negroes”
Thomas Rolph, 20th c
talks about visiting Barbados in 1833, and seeing runaway slaves hiding in gullies and bushes
Dr. Robert Love
“African for the Africans”
Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
‘Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers’ shall be the anthem of the Negro race
Garvey, on Africa
“legitimate, moral and righteous home of all Negroes”
Governor Thomas Lynch of Jamaica
“some of them have affirmed to have planted indian provisions and have found them well grown” - buccaneers
Alexandre Exquemelin
flesh- “they scarce eat anything else”
Henderson
cold pickling the manatee’s tail
W. Dampier
speaks about beef,and sweet/fat animals
David Barclay
“labour on a pen is much lighter than a sugar plantation”
Charlie Leslie, 1740s
slaves growing Maiz, Guiney Corn, Yams, led to the informal economy
Cynric Williams
enslaved on Mr Matthew’s pen can have as many hogs as they want, a privilege they cannot enjoy on sugar estates
French Priest Antoine Biet
Ouicou made from cassava, was a good substitute for wine
Labat on Martinican sugar plantations
10% of rum consumed by servants and enslaved
Labat on rum punch
“favourite drink of the island”
Punch bowls are indicator of status
1722- probate inventory of John Pinney, Nevis, included a porcelain punch bowl
“slaves who have been dancing, or drinking… will be found at the hospital the next morning”
Collins, Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Training of Negro Slaves
