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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الصفحة 62
... person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ...
... person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ...
الصفحة 94
... person who they are ; it is bad to tell an enemy your strength or weakness , for he will divife methods to attack and encounter you accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends ...
... person who they are ; it is bad to tell an enemy your strength or weakness , for he will divife methods to attack and encounter you accordingly . Overseers are commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends ...
الصفحة 103
... person whatsoever that hath any matter , caufe or any thing at any time depending before you . So help you GOD . This may prevent you from cenfure before God and man ; for every fubject , the meaneft as well as the greateft , has an ...
... person whatsoever that hath any matter , caufe or any thing at any time depending before you . So help you GOD . This may prevent you from cenfure before God and man ; for every fubject , the meaneft as well as the greateft , has an ...
الصفحة 141
... person whatsoever shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , such person or perfons fo offending shall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuf- fer ...
... person whatsoever shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , such person or perfons fo offending shall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuf- fer ...
الصفحة 145
... person who is not a judge may purchase an old flave for a young one , a distempered boy or girl for one healthy and tout . About eight or nine o'clock every morning they are mustered on deck , and are obliged to jump and dance and roar ...
... person who is not a judge may purchase an old flave for a young one , a distempered boy or girl for one healthy and tout . About eight or nine o'clock every morning they are mustered on deck , and are obliged to jump and dance and roar ...
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