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 57
... flaves will cost about 60001 , more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen , always required on the ...
... flaves will cost about 60001 , more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen , always required on the ...
الصفحة 69
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and administra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honef 1 ava- honest men ) who made no remittances at all IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and administra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honef 1 ava- honest men ) who made no remittances at all IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
الصفحة 73
... flaves to his property . An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's ...
... flaves to his property . An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's ...
الصفحة 75
... flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we shall make a better crop next year ; you ...
... flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we shall make a better crop next year ; you ...
الصفحة 79
... flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are industri- oufly inclined ) abundance of sheep , goats , swine , and poultry , for themselves and their book- keepers ; besides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef ...
... flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are industri- oufly inclined ) abundance of sheep , goats , swine , and poultry , for themselves and their book- keepers ; besides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef ...
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