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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... some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
... some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a ...
الصفحة 49
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without expofing his ...
... Some people may fay , that any man may be a planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without expofing his ...
الصفحة 55
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make fuch mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
... Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make fuch mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
الصفحة 57
... some sort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and mules , and finding plantation implements , is attended with no small expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn ...
... some sort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and mules , and finding plantation implements , is attended with no small expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn ...
الصفحة 73
... some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be forgiven by their new mafter ; by which fervile ftratagem he gets an addition of fo many flaves to ...
... some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be forgiven by their new mafter ; by which fervile ftratagem he gets an addition of fo many flaves to ...
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