Notes on the West Indies - Volume 2 : Written during the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Notes on the West Indies 3 Volume Set
ISBN-10
1108024262
ISBN-13
9781108024266
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 9th, 2010
Print length
498 Pages
Weight
658 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.80 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700History
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This detailed description of Dr Thomas Pinckard's voyage to, and residence in, the West Indies in 1796–1797 provides much information on the people of the area as seen through western eyes. Writing in the genre of informal letters to a friend, he comments at length on everything he saw.
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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