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Eighteen Months in Jamaica choose

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[WI] T. Foulks Eighteen Months in Jamaica 88: Some negroes at the commencement of the insurrection went to a Maroon station, and asked if on the event of ‘nigger fighting Buckra, Maroon would take dem part?’.
at backra, n.
[WI] T. Foulks Eighteen Months in Jamaica 32: The lower order of speculators is contented with ‘tossing up’ a bit, a ten-pence, or a macaroni.
at bit, n.1
[WI] T. Foulks Eighteen Months in Jamaica 32: The higher grade will bet a two dollar piece, a pistole, a half joe.
at joe, n.3
[WI] T. Foulks Eighteen Months in Jamaica 472: Chantoba will tell Cooba how Quaw teifed [sic] her fattest hog.
at t’ief, v.
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