Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

CHAPTER XXXIV.

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Seeming paradoxes explained--Negro suspicion--Instances of it-- Stealing--Its various characters--Leasing--The dead canaries-- Broken promises--Idleness--Negro wages--Their present lot-- Domestics