Even by colonial standards, the treatment of slaves working the Haitian plantations was truly vile.
Though O'Reilly established Spain's command "in no uncertain terms," the policies he and subsequent Spanish governors put in place "were relatively progressive, at least by colonial standards," Ned Sublette writes in "The World That Made New Orleans," an absorbing study of the transition from colony to American city.
He and his family moved into the house at Ferryland built by Wynne, a sizeable structure for the time, by colonial standards, and the only one in the settlement large enough to accommodate religious services for the community.
It's a word – an entire way of life - that is as much an anchor to this country as it is a symbol as to what we can achieve we team together; the post-colonial standard bearer of the New Zealand experience.
Many members of Indigenous communities live in rural areas and are raised in what would be considered an "unconventional" way by colonial Western standards, for example through apprenticeship, ceremonies, and practice in their environment (Daes, 1994) rather than in a classroom or laboratory (Kawagley and Barnhardt, 1999).
Lobengula's troops were well-drilled and formidable by pre-colonial African standards, but the Company's Maxim guns, which had never before been used in battle, far exceeded expectations, according to an eyewitness "mow[ing] them down literally like grass".
Well-characterized clinical isolates were from respiratory specimens wherever possible, and were identified by colonial morphology, standard biochemical methods, VITEK-2 (bioMérieux, Basingstoke, UK), Microflex matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Bruker, Coventry, UK), and sequencing, as appropriate.
Brucella colonies were identified by colonial morphology and standard typing procedures [ 20, 16].
So, instead of a standard Colonial recreation ("We don't have an herb garden," Ms. Pape said), the garden offers romantic collections of roses, peonies and lilacs.
This was almost 20 years before the failure of the English at Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" near the North Carolina coast or their later successes in Virginia at Jamestown in 1607 and at Plymouth Rock in 1620 — the "beginnings" emphasized in the standard colonial history taught in American schools.
The accusations of Wills' throwing were growing louder, and Hammersley, the self-appointed defender of standards in colonial cricket, emerged as his most severe critic.
