West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 62
... after re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... after re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 63
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering ...
الصفحة 88
... creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and ...
... creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and ...
الصفحة 105
... Creole mafter or mifs fay , " Do , momma , get me fome mauby , mine head no ' tand good . " It is quite ufual for a Creole gentleman after dinner to fend to the field for one of his favourite wenches , who is in- ftantly hurried home ...
... Creole mafter or mifs fay , " Do , momma , get me fome mauby , mine head no ' tand good . " It is quite ufual for a Creole gentleman after dinner to fend to the field for one of his favourite wenches , who is in- ftantly hurried home ...
الصفحة 106
... Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended fpoufes ready made before them ...
... Creole men commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended fpoufes ready made before them ...
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