 | John Stewart - 1823 - 406 pages
...and mode of speech; they address the whites with greater familiarity ; they come into their masters' houses, and drink with them ; the distance between...with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia. Pleasure throws a temporary oblivion over their cares and their toils ; they seem a people without... | |
 | 1823 - 508 pages
...the Africans eat the cane-field rat, which they regard as a great luxury.' come into their masters' houses, and drink with them ; the distance between...the moment, like the familiar footing on which the Human slaves were with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia. Pleasure throws a temporary oblivion... | |
 | Michael Mullin - 1992 - 436 pages
...and mode of speech; they address the whites with greater familiarity; they come into their masters' houses, and drink with them; the distance between them appears to be annihilated for the moment." This nineteenth-century traveler went on to describe a slave military ball at which "one is General... | |
 | Peter A. Roberts - 1997 - 320 pages
...Stewart [ 1808: 262] in Jamaica who provides a view of this behaviour: On this occasion 1 Christmas], these poor people appear as it were quite another...appears to be annihilated for the moment, like the familiarity footing on which the Roman slaves were with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia;... | |
 | Richard D. E. Burton - 1997 - 330 pages
...of trinkets,- . . . they address the whites with greater familiarity,- they come into their masters' houses and drink with them — the distance between them appears to be annihilated for the moment . . . / they seem as a people recreated and renewed." On entering the Great House en masse and playing... | |
 | Norman C. Stolzoff - 2000 - 332 pages
...general condition of plantation society: "they address the whites with great familiarity; come into the master's houses, and drink with them; the distance...with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia. Pleasure throws a temporary oblivion over their cares and their toils; they seem a people without the... | |
 | Barbara Ehrenreich - 2007 - 346 pages
...celebration. A white contemporary reported that during the holidays "the distance between [masters and slaves] appears to be annihilated for the moment, like the...masters at the feast of the Saturnalia, to which a West Indian Christmas may be compared."39 In the Carolinas, where Jonkonnu had spread by the nineteenth... | |
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... houses, and drink with them ; the distance between them appears to be annihilated for the moment, like the familiar footing on which the Roman slaves were with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia... 