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 62
... and overseers , with some trusty negroes , keep a constant look out , the gates
are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get
admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock
...
... and overseers , with some trusty negroes , keep a constant look out , the gates
are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get
admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock
...
الصفحة 86
An overseer should be allowed a generous salary ; nor should he be permitted to
pamper horses , cattle , nor stock of any kind , to sell or barter for his own
emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to dispose of any of the estate's produce ,
least ...
An overseer should be allowed a generous salary ; nor should he be permitted to
pamper horses , cattle , nor stock of any kind , to sell or barter for his own
emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to dispose of any of the estate's produce ,
least ...
الصفحة 94
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and
poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other stores ; he
must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to
call ...
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and
poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other stores ; he
must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to
call ...
الصفحة 95
He must every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with
egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all
this a very menial part of duty , which I cer , tainly think it is the greatest and most
...
He must every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with
egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all
this a very menial part of duty , which I cer , tainly think it is the greatest and most
...
الصفحة 176
... like country bumpkins , to suit the different companies they mix with : this
commonly happens'in large towns or cities , where they may frequent different
Taverns a long time before they are detected ; for which purpose they have a
good stock ...
... like country bumpkins , to suit the different companies they mix with : this
commonly happens'in large towns or cities , where they may frequent different
Taverns a long time before they are detected ; for which purpose they have a
good stock ...
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