… to others arriving from different plantations. Information about conditions and happenings on various plantations travelled by word of mouth. Dancing, a favourite pastime, also provided occasions for enslaved people to gather. Various … the Jesuits before 1763), medicine (he was recognised as talented in administering voodoo medicines) and business (he travelled throughout the colony managing the affairs of his superiors) was well-recognised in the colony. 10 This …
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… bond. In 1767, frustrated with Tobias George Smollett’s critical depiction of the French as frivolous and prattling in Travels Through France and Italy , Riccoboni countered in her letters that the British, like any other nation, had its …
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