Title: Notes on the West Indies: Written during the Expedition under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition) (Volume 2)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1108024262
ISBN 13: 9781108024266
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Weight: 778 grams

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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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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.

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