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 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 ...
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