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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... business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the ...
... business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep loitering about the ...
الصفحة 50
... business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him ...
... business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him ...
الصفحة 52
... business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and ...
... business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and ...
الصفحة 80
... business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overfeer fhould be active and industrious , of a steady , fober difpofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd and ...
... business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overfeer fhould be active and industrious , of a steady , fober difpofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd and ...
الصفحة 81
... business without rigid feverity.Heavens ! how few are fit for fo weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book ...
... business without rigid feverity.Heavens ! how few are fit for fo weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book ...
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