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 Edition |
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الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending
shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ;
and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep
loitering ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending
shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ;
and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep
loitering ...
الصفحة 64
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego
Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of
Scotch ; they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's
son ...
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown , Spanish Town , Montego
Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of
Scotch ; they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's
son ...
الصفحة 77
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure some of the finest young
wenches for the gen . tlemen ; about sun set they are ordered from the field to
wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ,
most ...
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure some of the finest young
wenches for the gen . tlemen ; about sun set they are ordered from the field to
wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ,
most ...
الصفحة 94
... they will naturally conclude that he is in some measure culpable ; besides ,
overseers , being low - lived fellows , will , to justify themselves , tell false stories ,
which may gain some credit ; so that every movement will lelsen him in his
friend's ...
... they will naturally conclude that he is in some measure culpable ; besides ,
overseers , being low - lived fellows , will , to justify themselves , tell false stories ,
which may gain some credit ; so that every movement will lelsen him in his
friend's ...
الصفحة 136
... without , which are sugar and rum , I say , that for the sake of these and some
other triAing articles of commerce , they are instrumental in murdering about fifty
thousand human beings yearly , “ God's own images , though cut on ebony .
... without , which are sugar and rum , I say , that for the sake of these and some
other triAing articles of commerce , they are instrumental in murdering about fifty
thousand human beings yearly , “ God's own images , though cut on ebony .
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