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 Edition |
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الصفحة 77
These poor wretches wash themselves in some river or pond , brace up their
breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves with
great dexterity , by dancing in all the varied wriggles peculiar to their F 3 sex ; fex
; the ...
These poor wretches wash themselves in some river or pond , brace up their
breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves with
great dexterity , by dancing in all the varied wriggles peculiar to their F 3 sex ; fex
; the ...
الصفحة 94
Should he and the overseer disagree , though his friends support him and send
him elsewhere , they will naturally conclude that he is in some measure culpable
; besides , overseers , being low - lived fellows , will , to justify themselves , tell ...
Should he and the overseer disagree , though his friends support him and send
him elsewhere , they will naturally conclude that he is in some measure culpable
; besides , overseers , being low - lived fellows , will , to justify themselves , tell ...
الصفحة 100
... with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant
chan men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the last at less than
first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends .
... with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant
chan men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the last at less than
first coft ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends .
الصفحة 125
On which account females use every art to set themselves off to the best
advantage , to make themselves pleasing and engaging companions for white
men ; and when one of them is disbanded by the man who had her in keeping , (
or as they ...
On which account females use every art to set themselves off to the best
advantage , to make themselves pleasing and engaging companions for white
men ; and when one of them is disbanded by the man who had her in keeping , (
or as they ...
الصفحة 148
It sometimes but not frequently happens , that those unhappy wretches , in a ftate
of ftarvation , grow desperate at their fate , and resolve to redress their wrongs ,
and gain their freedom , or to periíh in the contest ; they form themselves into ...
It sometimes but not frequently happens , that those unhappy wretches , in a ftate
of ftarvation , grow desperate at their fate , and resolve to redress their wrongs ,
and gain their freedom , or to periíh in the contest ; they form themselves into ...
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