… the jury. “In prose that is itself remarkable for its grace and clarity, Word by Word shows how texts written—and, … emerge are the voices of highly individualized enslaved people as they negotiate intersecting networks of labor, …
… of slavery has given it its death blow. The colored people are rapidly advancing to wealth and education, and are … he described as the most degraded, vicious, and abandoned people in the island — “very far below the negroes.” They … not struck with this difference in the conduct of the two people, remarking that he had always observed it. It is very …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition