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 56
... because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low ...
... because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low ...
الصفحة 58
... because the salaries and accom- modations were equally indifferent ; so thatmanagers of grass penns were confidered as friendless ; nor would those of fugar plantations , or even the over- feers , affociate with them , but latterly ...
... because the salaries and accom- modations were equally indifferent ; so thatmanagers of grass penns were confidered as friendless ; nor would those of fugar plantations , or even the over- feers , affociate with them , but latterly ...
الصفحة 68
... Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African slave ! Now keen little Ifaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wife little Solomon , wisest of all ! Again ...
... Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n'd to be fold for an African slave ! Now keen little Ifaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wife little Solomon , wisest of all ! Again ...
الصفحة 79
... because a man of education , spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to ...
... because a man of education , spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to ...
الصفحة 86
... because their villainy was not detected .. I must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to ...
... because their villainy was not detected .. I must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to ...
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