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henry_flower) wrote2016-06-19 01:29 am
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OMG, pity the poor slave owners, hahaha "Hitherto no open opposition had been attempted to the laws
OMG, pity the poor slave owners, hahaha
"Hitherto no open opposition had been attempted to the laws under which the missions were making such progress; but the jealousy of the settlers against the Jesuits was gaining head. [...]
The King’s tenths, they [The Chamber of Belem] said, were so diminished that no person would farm them. Men of noble lineage could not bring their children to the city, because they had no slaves to row their canoes; their daughters could not appear at mass for want of fit clothing; many persons in Belem had no one to fetch them wood or water, and were perishing for want of slaves to cultivate their land.
In his reply, Vieyra observed that the evils imputed to the want of slaves arose from other causes,--from the nature of the country, from the scarcity of grain, and from the want of combination amongst the people. As for slaves, he said, experience had shown that however great was the supply, the mortality was in excess thereof."
NO
SLAVES
TO ROW
THE CANOES
& no one to fetch wood or water!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52252/52252-h/52252-h.htm
"Hitherto no open opposition had been attempted to the laws under which the missions were making such progress; but the jealousy of the settlers against the Jesuits was gaining head. [...]
The King’s tenths, they [The Chamber of Belem] said, were so diminished that no person would farm them. Men of noble lineage could not bring their children to the city, because they had no slaves to row their canoes; their daughters could not appear at mass for want of fit clothing; many persons in Belem had no one to fetch them wood or water, and were perishing for want of slaves to cultivate their land.
In his reply, Vieyra observed that the evils imputed to the want of slaves arose from other causes,--from the nature of the country, from the scarcity of grain, and from the want of combination amongst the people. As for slaves, he said, experience had shown that however great was the supply, the mortality was in excess thereof."
NO
SLAVES
TO ROW
THE CANOES
& no one to fetch wood or water!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52252/52252-h/52252-h.htm
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