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 57
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool .
more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation
is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one ...
c . will cost about 8,000 ) ; one hundred and forty Naves will cost about 60ool .
more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation
is far from the shipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one ...
الصفحة 83
Sneaking Caution , kept some of the best Naves for domestics , to wit , three
house - maids , three fempstresses , and two Itout wenches their apprentices ,
two washerwomen , two cooks , two yomen attending poultry , and two stout
wenches ...
Sneaking Caution , kept some of the best Naves for domestics , to wit , three
house - maids , three fempstresses , and two Itout wenches their apprentices ,
two washerwomen , two cooks , two yomen attending poultry , and two stout
wenches ...
الصفحة 84
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very
best Naves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every
Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder
...
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very
best Naves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every
Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder
...
الصفحة 143
... very little protects poor Naves from the severity of cruel and vindictive whites :
for as the evidence of a Nave will not be admitted against a free person , a free
person may flog in private his own or any other person's Naves ; and supposing
he ...
... very little protects poor Naves from the severity of cruel and vindictive whites :
for as the evidence of a Nave will not be admitted against a free person , a free
person may flog in private his own or any other person's Naves ; and supposing
he ...
الصفحة 144
By a law of the Greeks , when a Nave was barbarously er ated by his master , he
could insist on being sold , and could chuse another master :there was a similar
law at Rome , so that Naves in those places had some protection ; but how is it in
...
By a law of the Greeks , when a Nave was barbarously er ated by his master , he
could insist on being sold , and could chuse another master :there was a similar
law at Rome , so that Naves in those places had some protection ; but how is it in
...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed wenches Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf