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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... the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live stock , to take shelter in the 1 : mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are. mountains , feet 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live stock , to take shelter in the 1 : mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are. mountains , feet 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 50
... flaves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper ...
... flaves , their abilities and strength ; and in crop time stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper ...
الصفحة 57
... flaves and stock , & c . will cost 30 or 40,0001 . ) ; which fum of 26,0001 . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an ...
... flaves and stock , & c . will cost 30 or 40,0001 . ) ; which fum of 26,0001 . at 8 per cent . interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an ...
الصفحة 64
... flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are ...
... flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are ...
الصفحة 69
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honeft honest men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honeft honest men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
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