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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... overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five ...
... overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass . The common charge for each negroe whether they are fick or well , is five ...
الصفحة 61
... overseers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
... overseers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
الصفحة 73
... in Europe to check the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and difcharge them at pleasure . F An An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 73.
... in Europe to check the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and difcharge them at pleasure . F An An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 73.
الصفحة 80
... overseer muft ferve his time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never expect to ...
... overseer muft ferve his time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never expect to ...
الصفحة 81
... overseer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; —it is a very true adage- " Set a beg gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . "The first and most effential ...
... overseer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; —it is a very true adage- " Set a beg gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . "The first and most effential ...
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