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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dr. Underhill's Letter | A Letter addressed to the Rt. Honourable E. Cardwell with Illustrative documents on the Condition of Jamaica and an explanatory statement | Edward B. Underhill | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2021 | hansebooks | EAN 9783348060264 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Hardcover. xiv, [1], 173 p.; front. (mounted photograph), 11 woodcuts, map Cameroons River and Victoria; 19.5 cm. (Starr,Baptist bibl. U38) `Mrs. Saker mentions the following instance of barbarity:-- "One of our first converts, a woman called Anna, was on the way to chapel one Sabbath morning. On passing the Egbo house (where the men practise their superstitious rites), she heard the cries of women. On pushing the door open, she saw two women hanging by their wrists from the roof of the house, and being rubbed all over with a kind of herb that produces a fearful irritation. The cries of the poor creatures were most distressing. Anna begged they would untie them. They instantly seized her, and tied her in the same way, rubbing the same herb on her. We did not hear of it for nearly six hours. Some of our young men, with Mr. H. Johnson, immediately went to the rescue. They had to fight their way in, but at length succeeded in bring Anna away. She had been one of our brightest woman [sic], but from that day she was an idiot." Nothing among these people is more fatal than a charge of witchcraft; one that is often made on the occurrence of any accident or natural death. A slave of King A'kaw's was thus accused. To try the truth of the accusation, she was first tested with poison. She was made to drink an infusion of a poisonous nut; but, although she speedily vomited the poison, which is usually regarded as a sign of innocence, she was tied hands and feet, and cast into the river. Another slave was savagely mutilated by her enraged master, and left in a miserable condition to perish.' (p. 31 f.) VG orig. decorated green cloth. Small chip from upper joint.

x + 493pp. 1st ed., traces of former library marks remaining, title page torn and repaired, water stain on frontispiece otherwise clean in original cloth. Sections on Bahamas, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica. The tour described in the book was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society following emancipation.