SAY
This transition is quite abrupt: Grainger can't seem to resolve the question of what would happen after enslaved persons become "servants...of choice."
SAY
This transition is quite abrupt: Grainger can't seem to resolve the question of what would happen after enslaved persons become "servants...of choice."
Perhaps
While argumentative, the repetition of "perhaps" is striking here.
vision.
This summary of the Book is the longest of the four--perhaps showing the difficulty of describing enslaved persons like plants and natural phenomena.
A tale
Could Grainger be playing with genre here?
medical
Thevenot
Pasqua
tamarind
Celsus
glander-pest
Caraccas
Indians
drink
Theodosia
Martinus
Pliny
epilepsy
Indian
cacao-walk
worms
eaten
Indians
drink
tanies
cassada
yams
yellow deaths
blight
Dryads
wood-nymphs
citron
plant of love
emetic
Negroes
cochineal insect
Christobelle
liquorice
Depoinci
Tournefort
Barbadians
privet
sons of Jewry
acassee
medicine
Ray
Linnaeus’s
melancholy
Barbadians
Bellyach
Ricinus
balm
logwood-hedge
oranges
lemons
Surinam
Ulloa
Edwards
Caribbeans
Indian
prickly pear
Vitruvius
bird of Jove
humming bird
Juno’s bird
boar
Goat’s
Neptune
vary
cherimoya
pine-apple
daily showers
plantanes
lime
orange
lemon
Procyon
Cyclops
Peleus’ Son
fern-tree
offspring
Naiad
Phoebus
nymphs
spirits
Trees
host
plains
main
rocky caves
mahoe-berry
cholera morbus
writers
Iguana
medicated
shower
doves
ducks
black crabs
ground-lizard
tree-lizard
Drummer
speckled lizard
Harpies
Cockroaches
Mr. Maupertuis
sand-flies
Mosquitos
Amyntor
Apollo’s
Mantuan Bard
native land
Jethro Tull, Esq;
tops
dung nor fallowing
Ceres’ son
hoe-arm’d gang
plough
trade-wind
nectar
coppers
thy hoes The deep trough sink, and ridge alternate raise: If this from washes guard thy gemmy tops; [260] And that arrest the moisture these require.