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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... corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or ...
... corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe , whether they are fick or well , is five shillings yearly , besides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a separate charge , so that he commonly gets about one hundred , or ...
الصفحة 33
... corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
... corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
الصفحة 41
... , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , caffavi , & c . & c . D The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 41 wrapped in dear delightful folitude, amidst the ...
... , raddish , & c . with Indian and Guinea corn , yams , plantains , caffavi , & c . & c . D The The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 41 wrapped in dear delightful folitude, amidst the ...
الصفحة 74
... corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle , mules , and negroes occasionally to work on his own estate , and returns them at leisure . Some attornies ...
... corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle , mules , and negroes occasionally to work on his own estate , and returns them at leisure . Some attornies ...
الصفحة 79
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; so that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction ob- served among them as in the West India ...
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; so that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mess together ; nor is there such distinction ob- served among them as in the West India ...
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