THE

HISTORY,

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL,

OF THE

BRITISH COLONIES

IN THE

WEST INDIES.

BY BRYAN EDWARDS, Esq. F. R. s. s. Á.

FOURTH EDITION,

WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY.

1807.

T. Gillet, Printer, Wild-Court, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

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CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK IV.

PRESENT INHABITANTS.

CHAP. I.

SUMMARY Account of the Inhabitants of the several Islands.

-Classes.-Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland.-

Predominant character of the European residents.-Creoles

or Natives.-Effect of climate.-Character of the Creole

Women and Children.-Of the people of Colour, and their

different tribes and casts.-Limitations and restrictions on the

Mulattoes, and native Blacks of free condition.-Their Cha-

racter at length, concluding with an Ode to Sable Venus.

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Of Negroes in a state of Slavery.-Preliminary Observations.—

Origin of the Slave Trade.--Portuguese Settlements on the

African Coast.-Negroes introduced into Hispaniola in 1502,

and the Slave Trade revived at the instance of Barth. de las

Casas, in 1517.-Hawkins's voyages to the Coast, in 1562

and 1563.-African Company established by James I.-Se-

cond charter in 1673 by Charles I.-Third Charter in 1662.

Fourth Charter in 1672.-Effect of the Petition and Declara-

tion of Right in 1688.-Acts of the 9th and 10th of William

and Mary, c. 26.-New regulations in 1750.-Description

of the African Coast.-Forts and Factories.-Exports from

Great Britain.-Nunber of Negroes transported annually to

the British Colonies.-State of the Trade from 1771 to 1787.

Number of Negroes at this time exported annually by the

different Nations of Europe

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