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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... neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - ftock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , whenever ...
... neceffary to lay in five or fix gallons of rum more than your fea - ftock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the failors ; it is the only way to gain their affections ; but obferve , whenever ...
الصفحة 26
... neceffary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying feveral weeks upon a fickly couch ...
... neceffary ; for numbers , I am confident , die through neglect . A glass of beverage , or fage - tea , may often be a cordial to the thirsty lip of a languid wretch , who has been sweating and frying feveral weeks upon a fickly couch ...
الصفحة 27
... neceffary to get blooded , provided always ( as they fay in their acts of parliament ) that there is no bleeding at the nofe ; tea , penada , fagoe , jellies , fruit , with clear and pleaC 2 fant fant air , polite chearful company ...
... neceffary to get blooded , provided always ( as they fay in their acts of parliament ) that there is no bleeding at the nofe ; tea , penada , fagoe , jellies , fruit , with clear and pleaC 2 fant fant air , polite chearful company ...
الصفحة 74
... neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fupplying the eftates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the shipments of all ...
... neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fupplying the eftates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the shipments of all ...
الصفحة 81
... neceffary , is to infult , offend , and injure their raw book - keepers , and to flog and torture the flaves for the fake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well acquainted with the nature of the cowfkin herd ; and though I ...
... neceffary , is to infult , offend , and injure their raw book - keepers , and to flog and torture the flaves for the fake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well acquainted with the nature of the cowfkin herd ; and though I ...
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