Excerpt from The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Vol. 2 of 2 There is likewife, in each of the Iflands, a confiderable number of perfons, of mixed blood, and Native Blacks, of free condition. In Jamaica they are reckoned, as we have them, at and I have reafon to believe they do not fall Ibort of the fame number in all the other Iflands col le�'tively taken. The whole inhabitants therefore may properly be divided into four great clafl'es. X. European Whites; 2. ...
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Excerpt from The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Vol. 2 of 2 There is likewife, in each of the Iflands, a confiderable number of perfons, of mixed blood, and Native Blacks, of free condition. In Jamaica they are reckoned, as we have them, at and I have reafon to believe they do not fall Ibort of the fame number in all the other Iflands col le�'tively taken. The whole inhabitants therefore may properly be divided into four great clafl'es. X. European Whites; 2. Creole or Native Whites; 3. Creoles of mixed blood, and free Native Blacks 4. Negroes in a fiate of flavery. I {hall treat of each Clafs feparately; premifing, however, that there are perfons not comprehended in either clafs; fuch as emigrants from North America, and a confiderable body of Jews. In Jamaica, the latter enjoy almofi every privile e pofl'effed by the Chrifiian Whites, excepting orgy the right of voting at ele�tions, of being returned to ferve in the afl'embly, and of holdmg any office of ma gifiracy but they have the liberty of purchafing and holding lands, as freely as any other people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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