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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may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; " in this case he will find himself miserably inistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impose upon him ...
may think , and say , “ My overseers and drivers will instruct me they will direct me , and I will be the cowskin hero ; " in this case he will find himself miserably inistaken ; for they will secretly laugh at him , and impose upon him ...
الصفحة 61
A late governor , towards the conclusion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lashed at severely in the public papers for his public and private conduct ; instead of putting the inand in a ...
A late governor , towards the conclusion of his reign , rendered himself obnoxious to the people , and was reprobated and lashed at severely in the public papers for his public and private conduct ; instead of putting the inand in a ...
الصفحة 69
There the executor , or administrator , poffeffes himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the least attention to the last ...
There the executor , or administrator , poffeffes himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the least attention to the last ...
الصفحة 72
A man by lending a small sum of money to a planter in distress , may get the attorney mip of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of security ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the ...
A man by lending a small sum of money to a planter in distress , may get the attorney mip of his plantation , and a mortgage thereon by way of security ; and it often happens in the end , that the mortgagee poffeffes himself of the ...
الصفحة 73
... brings the plantation , Naves , & c . to sale ; and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion .
... brings the plantation , Naves , & c . to sale ; and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion .
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf