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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... overfeers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board ... overfeer reads to fome old black man or woman who attends them . I fhall here give an extract , which curiosity ...
... overfeers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends alfo , fo that it never cofts him any thing for board ... overfeer reads to fome old black man or woman who attends them . I fhall here give an extract , which curiosity ...
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... overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing ... overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing ... overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
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J. B. Moreton. may think , and fay , " My overfeers and drivers will inftruct me - they will direct me , and I will be the cowfkin hero ; " in this cafe he will find himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and ...
J. B. Moreton. may think , and fay , " My overfeers and drivers will inftruct me - they will direct me , and I will be the cowfkin hero ; " in this cafe he will find himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and ...
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... overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I ...
... overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft fuch vaft labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I ...
الصفحة 55
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
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