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 55
... shew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal ...
... shew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal ...
الصفحة 81
... shew his authority ; but when such get elevated to the exalted sphere of overseer or cowskin hero , and get poffession of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on ...
... shew his authority ; but when such get elevated to the exalted sphere of overseer or cowskin hero , and get poffession of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on ...
الصفحة 82
... Shew all these tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honest , he's a dev'lish cheat . He commonly set the negroes to work at wrong seasons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excuses to ...
... Shew all these tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honest , he's a dev'lish cheat . He commonly set the negroes to work at wrong seasons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excuses to ...
الصفحة 83
... them without faults , to shew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
... them without faults , to shew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
الصفحة 103
... shew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any par- ticular individual ( even to the poor tar , who has been barbarously treated on his voyage by the remorseless remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for justice IN ...
... shew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any par- ticular individual ( even to the poor tar , who has been barbarously treated on his voyage by the remorseless remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for justice IN ...
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