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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الصفحة 71
... should have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overseer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... should have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overseer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 72
planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly there were a few honeft impartial attornies in Jamaica , such as Sheckle , Beckford , Winde , & c . though originally indented servants , who could not boast of families or connections ...
planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly there were a few honeft impartial attornies in Jamaica , such as Sheckle , Beckford , Winde , & c . though originally indented servants , who could not boast of families or connections ...
الصفحة 86
... according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts its peculiar nourishment from the earth ; the nurfe who suckles more than one babe at once will exhaust herself , nor can she do them all justice ; the ...
... according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts its peculiar nourishment from the earth ; the nurfe who suckles more than one babe at once will exhaust herself , nor can she do them all justice ; the ...
الصفحة 101
... he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in some public character , untill he is elevated , step after step , as I shall now mention ; the first honour conferred upon him is that of a justice of the ...
... he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in some public character , untill he is elevated , step after step , as I shall now mention ; the first honour conferred upon him is that of a justice of the ...
الصفحة 102
Should you be elevated to a tribunal of justice , say little , look grave and attentive , and you may pass for a man of sense ; but I would advise you , however , to pay particular attention to the evidences , to let common sense direct ...
Should you be elevated to a tribunal of justice , say little , look grave and attentive , and you may pass for a man of sense ; but I would advise you , however , to pay particular attention to the evidences , to let common sense direct ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf