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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الصفحة 36
... carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , shirts , trowsars , daucases or shifts , trinkets and paltry baubles , to give ...
... carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , shirts , trowsars , daucases or shifts , trinkets and paltry baubles , to give ...
الصفحة 44
... carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till ... carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations ...
... carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are shifted nightly from penn to penn , till ... carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations ...
الصفحة 50
... carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very justly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is ...
... carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very justly he is , to as much or more than the ignorant man who is ...
الصفحة 97
... carry on some pedling traffic in sheep , pultry , & c . As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; lodging ; and though one ...
... carry on some pedling traffic in sheep , pultry , & c . As merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board , washing , and sometimes lodging ; lodging ; and though one ...
الصفحة 122
... carrying the lap dog of one , and the fan or flippers of another - no , women like men to appear and act like men , and not like baboons or affes . One thing more I recommend to you ; if you wish to keep in favour with the fair , never ...
... carrying the lap dog of one , and the fan or flippers of another - no , women like men to appear and act like men , and not like baboons or affes . One thing more I recommend to you ; if you wish to keep in favour with the fair , never ...
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