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 64
... cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND ...
... cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND ...
الصفحة 80
... cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri ...
... cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri ...
الصفحة 81
... cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " — The first and most effential qualifications ...
... cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " — The first and most effential qualifications ...
الصفحة 90
... cowskin hero . AIR . Irish Hautboy . Tho ' he may growl and grumble , The haughly imperious man ; I'll be content and humble , And I'll please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a ...
... cowskin hero . AIR . Irish Hautboy . Tho ' he may growl and grumble , The haughly imperious man ; I'll be content and humble , And I'll please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a ...
الصفحة 91
... cowskin hero . Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form ftrange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up ...
... cowskin hero . Young men , before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form ftrange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up ...
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