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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... shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant ...
... shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant ...
الصفحة 42
J. B. Moreton. The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are ex- cellent for fattening horfes and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleafed with the beef , mutton , pork , and ...
J. B. Moreton. The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are ex- cellent for fattening horfes and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleafed with the beef , mutton , pork , and ...
الصفحة 58
... shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for ...
... shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for ...
الصفحة 91
... shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowfkin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my ...
... shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowfkin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my ...
الصفحة 141
... shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , such person or perfons fo offending shall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuf- fer as a further ...
... shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , such person or perfons fo offending shall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuf- fer as a further ...
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