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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... flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell ...
... flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell ...
الصفحة 50
... flaves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time ftand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper ...
... flaves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time ftand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper ...
الصفحة 57
... flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen , always required on the ...
... flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen , always required on the ...
الصفحة 58
... flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs ...
... flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs ...
الصفحة 62
... flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize ...
... flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked feveral times ; but how great was my furprize ...
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