sounding a conch-shell
there's something indigenous going on here
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VER. 508. Dolphins] This is a most beautiful fish, when first taken out of the sea; but its beauty vanishes, almost as soon as it is dead.
no thoughts, this is just funny
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by no means, so useful
obviously doesn't think the multitude of uses coconuts serve to Indigenous people are very "useful"– flash forward a few hundred years and now y'all can't get enough of coconut water and oil
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They also feed on dead mules and horses; whose carcasses, therefore, should be buried deep, that the Negroes may not come at them. But the surest way is to burn them; otherwise they will be apt, privily, to kill those useful animals, in order to feast on them
- I'm sorry, as opposed to eating live animals?? Stop trying to make this something it isn't dude
- what is this Game of Thrones? are these animals white walkers or something? calm down
- ah...it's because they're "useful" animals...and thus capitalism rears its ugly head once again
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foul feeders, many of them greedily devouring the raw guts of fowls
very rude use of homophones sir
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Thus providence
basically "thank god for infanticide"
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Monkeys are not indigenous to St. Kitts
reminds me of the thing about the cows in relation to King Phillips War (as in the different ways an ecological colonization can occur both intentionally and accidentally)
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Blacken’d his Cane-lands
word choice
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true Indian name
as opposed to the false Indian name?
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slaves
I think this is the first time "slaves" is used in the actual poem
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By Ceres’ son,] Jethro Tull
what in the Percy Jackson?
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Liamuiga
use of the indigenous name here
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Each plant should own thy Cane her lawful lord
of course even plants cannot escape social hierarchies
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Shakespear’s words
it was only a matter of time before this guy showed up #shakespeare&accountability
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strong
really? I wonder how guava has changed since then bc one of the reasons why I hate guava is because the taste is too mild. Or did these people just have cat tongue
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Aurelius;26 him to whom, Imperial George,
ah yes, the genealogy of empire
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Beneath what signs to plant
For example, the Hawaiian moon calendar is really detailed about stuff like this (and is still followed by many to this day)
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is there a reason why this section is written like this? like a list I mean.
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Whether the Moon has any influence over the Cane-plant.
According to many Indigenous agricultural traditions, the answer is yes
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unavoidable.
this just sounds rude
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IN a West-India georgic,
did the georgic fascination with pastoralism and agriculture come before the plantation colonies and influence them or was it the other way around?
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improvements.
I just wanna know what "improvements" colonial agricultural industries could have possibly introduced to Indigenous lands with climates and geographies they had never seen before.
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