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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... commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations ...
... commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations ...
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... commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feafons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places ...
... commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feafons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places ...
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J. B. Moreton. 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thun- der and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees ...
J. B. Moreton. 1 mountains until the waters abate ; thefe heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thun- der and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees ...
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... commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the firft crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are feldom ...
... commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the firft crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are feldom ...
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... commonly referved for the ufe of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in- duftrious experienced planters . When canes are ...
... commonly referved for the ufe of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in- duftrious experienced planters . When canes are ...
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