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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... neceffary ; for numbers , I am con- fident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying several weeks upon a fickly couch ...
... neceffary ; for numbers , I am con- fident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying several weeks upon a fickly couch ...
الصفحة 81
... neceffary , is to infult , offend , and injure their raw book - keepers , and to flog and torture the flaves for the sake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well ac- quainted with the nature of the cowskin herd ; and though ...
... neceffary , is to infult , offend , and injure their raw book - keepers , and to flog and torture the flaves for the sake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well ac- quainted with the nature of the cowskin herd ; and though ...
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