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 79
... a Manager ; and the Overseer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the
Windward Inands Overseer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occasion
to speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers .
... a Manager ; and the Overseer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the
Windward Inands Overseer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occasion
to speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers .
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice
severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book -
keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , so that
in time their ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice
severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book -
keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , so that
in time their ...
الصفحة 89
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour
to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent
neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and
means they ...
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour
to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent
neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and
means they ...
الصفحة 93
... The usual salary for a book - keeper in the country is £ 40 per annum , with
board , washing and lodging , the same as the overseer ; in the windward islands
, book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overfeer's tables , for which reason ...
... The usual salary for a book - keeper in the country is £ 40 per annum , with
board , washing and lodging , the same as the overseer ; in the windward islands
, book - keepers are not permitted to mess at overfeer's tables , for which reason ...
الصفحة 94
... or weakness , for he will divise methods to attack and encounter you
accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that țheir
book - keepers have friends , or merit ; so you will please to observe this , to be
secret ...
... or weakness , for he will divise methods to attack and encounter you
accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that țheir
book - keepers have friends , or merit ; so you will please to observe this , to be
secret ...
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