Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies. In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.

All titles

• Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies. In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.
• Caption title on p. 1: Brief treatise of the principal fruits and herbs that grow in Barbadoes, Jamaica, and other plantations in the West Indies Caption title on p. 75: Negro's complaint of their hard servitude, and the cruelties practised upon them by divers of their masters professing Christianity in the West-Indian plantations Caption title on p. 146: Discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or Negro-slave and a Christian, that was his master in America

People / Organizations

• Thomas Tryon (Author)

Imprint

[London]: Printed by Andrew Sowle, in the year 1684.

Publication year

1684-1684

ESTC No.

R203819

Grub Street ID

80897

Description

[2], 222, [2] p. ; 8⁰

Note

Philotheus Physiologus = Thomas Tryon.

Place of publication from Wing.

A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with title beginning "Friendly advcie [sic]".

The last leaf is blank.