Feb 23
The negroes [in Barbados] differ much, I think, from those in the other islands… They are … certainly less good-humoured, and more inclined to insolence ; so that if anything be gained in intelligence it is lost in conduct.
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really??
jdid · February 25, 2008
So the man says; he says that we’re smarter than the other “negroes”, but also more unmannerly.
Keep in mind that he was an Englishman writing back in 1858, or something so, which makes everything he says slightly hilarious to me.
titilayo · February 25, 2008