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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863


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so far as

1

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.