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 79
... Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers ...
... Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers ...
الصفحة 93
... windward iflands the falary is greater , as they must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who ...
... windward iflands the falary is greater , as they must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an overfeer there who ...
الصفحة 97
... Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can ...
... Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can ...
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