Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies
Subtitle: In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East and 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 usage 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: By Philotheos Physiologus
Contributors: Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864
Publisher: Printed by Andrew Sowle
Published: 1684
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Slaves; Social conditions; Slavery; Tropical medicine; Natural history; Description and travel
Other titles: Brief treatise of the principal fruits and herbs that grow in Barbadoes, Jamaica, and other plantations in the West Indies.; 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.; Discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or Negro-slave and a Christian, that was his master in America.
Notes: Attributed to Thomas Tryon by Wing.

Place of publication supplied by Wing.

Reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with title beginning "Friendly advcie [sic]"

"Brief treatise of the principal fruits and herbs that grow in Barbadoes, Jamaica, and other plantations in the West Indies": p. 1-73.

"Negros complaint of their hard servitude, and the cruelties practised upon them by divers of their masters professing Christianity in the West-Indian plantations": p. 75-145.

"Discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or Negro-slave and a Christian, that was his master in America": p. 146-222.

Signatures: [A]² B-P⁸ ([A]2 blank, F5 verso blank, P4 blank) (L2 missigned K2)

Errors in pagination: p. 62 misnumbered 26.

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 1695.

Institute of Jamaica. Bibliography of the West Indies (excluding Jamaica), 1987.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), T3179.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana (1875-1882 edition), II:1302.

European Americana 684/177.

English short title catalogue R203819.5

Purchase; 1846; 0533.