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 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 17
الصفحة 21
... corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one ...
... corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five fhillings yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one ...
الصفحة 33
... corn , and other provifions ; the fmall hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongft which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
... corn , and other provifions ; the fmall hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongft which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
الصفحة 41
... , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , caffavi , & c . & c . D 曩 1 The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 41 The trees are amazing high, appearing to touch ...
... , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , caffavi , & c . & c . D 曩 1 The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 41 The trees are amazing high, appearing to touch ...
الصفحة 74
... corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle , mules , and negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write ...
... corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle , mules , and negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write ...
الصفحة 79
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and chocolate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction obferved among them as in the Weft India Islands ...
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and chocolate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction obferved among them as in the Weft India Islands ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affected alfo appear attend attorney become better blood book-keepers called canes carry cattle cent commonly confidered corn Creole cure dear drink eftate eight fame feet feveral fhall fhould field five flaves fmall follow fome fometimes fond foon four frequently friends fuch fugar gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf holes houſe human hundred ignorant Indies iſland Jamaica keep kind known ladies leaft liquor live mafter manager manner means merchants mifs mind Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature negroes never night obferve obliged once overfeers pain particularly perfon pieces plantation planter planting poffible poor taken temper themſelves thing thofe thoſe thouſand till tion town turn wenches whole wine women woods young