[79] See a letter to the Craftsman, 6th March 1731.
[80] To give but one instance. In 1683 a negro in Barbadoes, who ventured to say to his mistress that some day the blacks would beat the whites, was burned alive. I remember also to have seen in the newspapers an account of the repression of a negro insurrection in Antigua, I think about 1713. The minor offenders were burned alive, and the ringleaders hung up in cages to starve. The references I have unfortunately lost, but I am sure of the facts.
[81] Cal. S. P., Col., vol. i. pp. 30, 113, 155, 430. As to trepanning and spiriting, see Ibid., 1681-1685, Index, White Servants; and compare the story told by George Primrose in the Vicar of Wakefield.
[82] See the letters of Henry Cromwell in Thurloe's State Papers.
[83] In the first Parliament of Richard Cromwell. See Burton's Diary.
[84] The same system still obtains in respect of indentured coolies imported into the tropical colonies from the East Indies. They are, however, protected by stringent statutory regulations and under the care of a highly paid officer, called the Protector of Immigrants.
[85] E.g. Barbados, Cal. S. P., Col. (1661-1668), p. 530.
[86] See the complaints of Governor Stapleton. Cal. S. P., Col., 1678-1680, and 1681-1685.
[87] As, for instance, in the Virginian rebellion of 1682. See Cal. S. P., Col. (1681-1685), Nos. 531, 546.
[88] Afterwards James II.