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 Edition |
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... in this cafe he will find himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and impofe upon him to his face ; when a man is diffident of his abilities , he will act timerously ; and when a subordinate perfon knows ...
... in this cafe he will find himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and impofe upon him to his face ; when a man is diffident of his abilities , he will act timerously ; and when a subordinate perfon knows ...
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A late governor , towards the conclufion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lafhed at feverely in the public papers for his public and private conduct ; instead of putting the island in a ...
A late governor , towards the conclufion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lafhed at feverely in the public papers for his public and private conduct ; instead of putting the island in a ...
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There the executor , or adminiftrator , poffeffes himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the leaft attention to the last ...
There the executor , or adminiftrator , poffeffes himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the leaft attention to the last ...
الصفحة 72
O A man by lending a fmall fum of money to a planter in diftrefs , may get the attorneyship of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of fecurity ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the ...
O A man by lending a fmall fum of money to a planter in diftrefs , may get the attorneyship of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of fecurity ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the ...
الصفحة 73
... brings the plantation , slaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion .
... brings the plantation , slaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion .
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