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 76
... say respecting your black people , though feveral of them have died lately , it was not for want of attention ; for Clyfterpipe , who is Doctor Bolus's brother , is very attentive ; there are too many invalids on the eftate , who never ...
... say respecting your black people , though feveral of them have died lately , it was not for want of attention ; for Clyfterpipe , who is Doctor Bolus's brother , is very attentive ; there are too many invalids on the eftate , who never ...
الصفحة 81
... say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves upon it ; and though it IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 81.
... say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves upon it ; and though it IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 81.
الصفحة 82
... says , His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame of one leg , diftorted in one eye ; Shew all thefe tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honeft , he's a dev'lifh cheat . He commonly fet the negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to ...
... says , His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame of one leg , diftorted in one eye ; Shew all thefe tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honeft , he's a dev'lifh cheat . He commonly fet the negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to ...
الصفحة 88
... say that the West Indies would be of no use if feverity was not exerted ; and many masters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to preserve the ...
... say that the West Indies would be of no use if feverity was not exerted ; and many masters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to preserve the ...
الصفحة 89
... girls , and every grovelling overfeer and book - keeper is as fashionably wicked as his employer , as Davy says in the play . He Ꮐ goes goes a wenching with as much ease and tran- quility IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 89.
... girls , and every grovelling overfeer and book - keeper is as fashionably wicked as his employer , as Davy says in the play . He Ꮐ goes goes a wenching with as much ease and tran- quility IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 89.
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