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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الصفحة 12
... a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the thip ; sometime after , a low
, fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two
curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats ...
... a smart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the thip ; sometime after , a low
, fat , swarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two
curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats ...
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending
shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ;
and at working hours , when thus obliged to shun the weather , do not keep
loitering ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending
shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ;
and at working hours , when thus obliged to shun the weather , do not keep
loitering ...
الصفحة 77
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on
every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like
goddesses . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for
about ...
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on
every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like
goddesses . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for
about ...
الصفحة 127
Those gypsies have a wonderful ascendancy over men , and have injured many ,
both powerful and subordinate ; the poor Naves on a plantation are obliged to
pay them as much adoration as the Portuguese do the Hostess or Virgin Mary ;
for ...
Those gypsies have a wonderful ascendancy over men , and have injured many ,
both powerful and subordinate ; the poor Naves on a plantation are obliged to
pay them as much adoration as the Portuguese do the Hostess or Virgin Mary ;
for ...
الصفحة 149
Full many a gem of purest ray serene , « The dark unfathom ' d caves of ocean
bear : . , « Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , , “ And waste its sweetness
on the desert air . " On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ...
Full many a gem of purest ray serene , « The dark unfathom ' d caves of ocean
bear : . , « Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , , “ And waste its sweetness
on the desert air . " On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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