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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... estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his skill is a mere bubble , He lives luxurious and gets rich , And kills and cures with little trouble . The following odd relation ...
... estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much , Tho ' all his skill is a mere bubble , He lives luxurious and gets rich , And kills and cures with little trouble . The following odd relation ...
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... estate , which will coft about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grafs - penn to feed them ; finding the slaves in food , and some sort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and ...
... estate , which will coft about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grafs - penn to feed them ; finding the slaves in food , and some sort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and ...
الصفحة 58
... estate ; and after he has exhaufted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs in the end , and fold to pay off debts : I fay , there is very little difficuty in getting poffeffion of an eftate , but a great deal to ...
... estate ; and after he has exhaufted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs in the end , and fold to pay off debts : I fay , there is very little difficuty in getting poffeffion of an eftate , but a great deal to ...
الصفحة 62
... estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the managers , and ...
... estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the managers , and ...
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... estate , ( previously embezzling every article he poffibly can with fecrecy ) and takes it at the valuation , and makes no remittance until he is compelled by law , by thofe heirs who may be far away , and may not hear of their friend's ...
... estate , ( previously embezzling every article he poffibly can with fecrecy ) and takes it at the valuation , and makes no remittance until he is compelled by law , by thofe heirs who may be far away , and may not hear of their friend's ...
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