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Notes on the West Indies : Written during the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
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ISBN: 051178385X 1108024254 Year: 1806 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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George Pinckard (1768-1835) was an army surgeon who arrived in the West Indies in 1796. His letters to a friend were published as Notes on the West Indies in 1806; a second edition came out in 1816. He describes at length all that he saw, from the very beginning of his journey, with vivid portrayals of characters and experiences: for example, before departure he saw a sailor being flogged around the fleet for desertion. Arriving first in Barbados, he describes the island, its people and its wildlife. He visited a slave trader's ship, and he gives a very good report of the condition of the slaves (most of whom were teenagers), in sharp contrast to horrific accounts also in circulation. His derogatory opinions about many of the Africans and half-castes that he met, particularly the women, perhaps typify the responses of a westerner of his age and class.

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Notes on the West Indies : written during the expedition under the command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
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ISBN: 0511783876 1108024262 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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George Pinckard (1768-1835) was an army surgeon who arrived in the West Indies in 1796. His letters to a friend were published as Notes on the West Indies in 1806; a second edition came out in 1816. Having been separated by bad weather from the fleet and arriving long before his regiment, he had plenty of time to explore Barbados, which he describes in detail in Volume 2. He is critical of the treatment of some slaves which he witnesses, but seldom questions slavery itself, and considers that, under a good owner, slaves were better off than they would have been in Africa; however, he found that elderly slaves who could no longer work were badly neglected. As a doctor, he is interested in illnesses suffered on the island, such as elephantiasis and yellow fever, and he also describes an expedition to Dutch Guiana.


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Notes on the West Indies : Written during the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
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ISBN: 0511783884 1108024270 Year: 1806 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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George Pinckard (1768-1835) was an army surgeon who arrived in the West Indies in 1796. His letters to a friend were published as Notes on the West Indies in 1806; a second edition came out in 1816. In Volume 3 he continues his description of Dutch Guiana, which had been captured by the British. He gives detailed descriptions of illness among the troops, comparing the Dutch and British medical practices. As several of the medical staff had died, Pinckard was kept extremely busy, while continuing to make observations on all he saw. Surviving an attack of yellow fever, he describes his own symptoms at length. In Guiana he witnessed exceptional cruelty towards slaves, concerning which he gives graphic details, and also the unequal treatment of mulattos. He ends the book with the arrival of his long-delayed orders to proceed to St Domingo (Haiti).

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Notes on the West Indies
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ISBN: 9780511783876 9781108024266 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Notes on the West Indies : written during the expedition under the command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby : including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana ; likewise remarks relating to the Creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America : with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates
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Year: 1806 Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,

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Notes on the West Indies : written during the expedition under the command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby. Volume 2
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ISBN: 9780511783876 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Netherlands --- India --- Barbados --- Caribbean area --- Suriname


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Notes on the West Indies
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ISBN: 9780511783852 9781108024259 Year: 1806 Publisher: Place of publication not identified Cambridge publisher not identified Cambridge University Press

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Notes on the West Indies
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ISBN: 9780511783883 9781108024273 Year: 1806 Publisher: Place of publication not identified Cambridge publisher not identified Cambridge University Press

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Notes on the West Indies
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Year: 1806 Publisher: London Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme


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Interesting narrative of a Negro sale at Demarara
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Year: 1806 Publisher: [England? s.n.]

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