Letters on the West Indies

amelioration Antigua appear attention Barbadoes Berbice body bondage brethren British West British West Indies character Christian church circum circumstances colonial affairs colonists coloured conduct consequence creditor Creole crime cruelty Demerara Dominica Dutch Reformed Church duty effect encouragement England English estates evil fact favour feelings gentlemen give governor greater number Grenada habits happy human ideas important improvement inhabitants interference irreligion island Jamaica justice labour legislatures letter manumissions Marryat master means ment Methodist mind mission missionaries morals Moravians mother country nature necessary negroes neighbour never Obeah object observations occasion opinion Paramaribo parish party perhaps persons plantation planters plantership population present prevail proprietors punishment question race religion religious instruction respecting Roman catholic church Sandvoort shew slave trade slavery slaves society sort spirit strongly Surinam thing thought tion truth views West Indians West Indies wise wish writer