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 |
من داخل الكتاب
الصفحة 34
... containing about two thousand houfes , befides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thoufand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand ...
... containing about two thousand houfes , befides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thoufand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand ...
الصفحة 38
... there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
... there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
الصفحة 50
... pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the dispositions of the flaves , their abilities and ftrength ...
... pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the dispositions of the flaves , their abilities and ftrength ...
الصفحة 57
c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred and forty flaves will cost about 60001 . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules ...
c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred and forty flaves will cost about 60001 . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules ...
الصفحة 58
Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the eftate ; and after he ...
Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the eftate ; and after he ...
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affected alfo appear attend attorney become better blood book-keepers called canes carry cattle cent commonly confidered corn Creole cure dear drink eftate eight fame feet feveral fhall fhould field five flaves fmall follow fome fometimes fond foon four frequently friends fuch fugar gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf holes houſe human hundred ignorant Indies Jamaica keep kind known ladies leaft liquor live mafter manager manner means merchants mind Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature neceffary negroes never night obferve obliged once overfeers pain particularly perfon plantation planter planting poffible poor taken temper themſelves thing thofe thoſe thouſand till tion town turn wenches whole wine women woods young yourſelf