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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الصفحة 66
... affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other fait fish ...
... affift each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will ac- cumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and fome trash of damaged her- rings , and other fait fish ...
الصفحة 68
... Who fwears he'll affift me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he ftripped his arin naked and girded it , and wore a leathern horn on his forehead . Where Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content 68 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... Who fwears he'll affift me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he ftripped his arin naked and girded it , and wore a leathern horn on his forehead . Where Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content 68 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 84
... affift to cul- tivate the eftate . Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the eftate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom → modations ...
... affift to cul- tivate the eftate . Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the eftate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom → modations ...
الصفحة 131
... affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen in a public place by day with her , nor do not ...
... affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen in a public place by day with her , nor do not ...
الصفحة 150
... affift to work their grounds ; the wo . men prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , loufe their heads , extract chiggers from their toes , and wash their frocks and trowfers . I fhall here fubmit the complaint of a negroe ...
... affift to work their grounds ; the wo . men prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , loufe their heads , extract chiggers from their toes , and wash their frocks and trowfers . I fhall here fubmit the complaint of a negroe ...
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