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 55
... fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal ...
... fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an hundred equal ...
الصفحة 81
... fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or 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 ...
... fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or 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 ...
الصفحة 83
... them without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
... them without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
الصفحة 103
... fhew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any par ticular individual ( even to the poor tar , who has been barbarously treated on his voyage by the remorseless remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for juftice IN THE ...
... fhew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any par ticular individual ( even to the poor tar , who has been barbarously treated on his voyage by the remorseless remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for juftice IN THE ...
الصفحة 118
... fhew his courage , challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning , and unfortunately M'Kill - all came off with a flight wound in the fhoulder . The old lady , who headed the table , contri- buted vaftly in promoting mirth and ...
... fhew his courage , challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning , and unfortunately M'Kill - all came off with a flight wound in the fhoulder . The old lady , who headed the table , contri- buted vaftly in promoting mirth and ...
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