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Leaves from Life in the West Indies by Neville Williams
The narrator recounts fourteen years in Jamaica reflecting on planter society and abolition era tensions. He describes travel through Clarendon to Leicesterfield, meeting a manager Mr Smith, and surviving hostile views about slavery while witnessing planters’ hospitality and threats. A near poisoning attempt underscores danger within colonial power structures.
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West Indies
Neville Williams
Massa
Buckra
Tom
Leicesterfield
Smith
Sangaree
Brandon Hill
Bull Head
England
Janna
Williams