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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... hands were not tied , the wounded perfon could not avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with disagree- able fores : I have heard of many young men's legs , legs , through the ...
... hands were not tied , the wounded perfon could not avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with disagree- able fores : I have heard of many young men's legs , legs , through the ...
الصفحة 51
... hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind- ward Islands , overfeers , or negroe ...
... hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind- ward Islands , overfeers , or negroe ...
الصفحة 76
... hand in fine order ; the Madeira is ex- cellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is beft London particular ; you will lay me under an ad- ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great ...
... hand in fine order ; the Madeira is ex- cellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is beft London particular ; you will lay me under an ad- ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great ...
الصفحة 91
... hand . Whether they are fick or well , Or had a long hungry spell ; Every crack shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowfkin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge ...
... hand . Whether they are fick or well , Or had a long hungry spell ; Every crack shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowfkin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge ...
الصفحة 93
... hand , and gave me dinners at times , and though I con- ducted myself as prudent as I poffibly could , be- caufe I did not fawn , cringe , and put up with a little - minded cowfkin hero's abufes , they did nothing for me at last , The ...
... hand , and gave me dinners at times , and though I con- ducted myself as prudent as I poffibly could , be- caufe I did not fawn , cringe , and put up with a little - minded cowfkin hero's abufes , they did nothing for me at last , The ...
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