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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... fufficient to fecret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room ...
... fufficient to fecret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room ...
الصفحة 44
... fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwife , it must be improved ; and this part ...
... fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwife , it must be improved ; and this part ...
الصفحة 49
... fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much tem- per ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes . When liquor gets too much . boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the mo- laffes in the ...
... fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much tem- per ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes . When liquor gets too much . boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the mo- laffes in the ...
الصفحة 83
... fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ftouteft flaves for watch- men , and the flighteft occupations , whilft the weak and meagre only cultivated the plantation ; besides , he had not ...
... fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ftouteft flaves for watch- men , and the flighteft occupations , whilft the weak and meagre only cultivated the plantation ; besides , he had not ...
الصفحة 130
... fufficient refolution to abstain from them , they would exert every base means to torment and infult him , and at laft conclude that he had loft the ufe of his members , or was no man ; fo , in order to avoid afperfions of this kind ...
... fufficient refolution to abstain from them , they would exert every base means to torment and infult him , and at laft conclude that he had loft the ufe of his members , or was no man ; fo , in order to avoid afperfions of this kind ...
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