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 57
canes . Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar
plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under The mill
, boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies ...
canes . Here let me observe the vast expence which attends establishing a sugar
plantation , supposing keeping only one hundred acres constantly under The mill
, boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies ...
الصفحة 58
c .; fo that in my humble opinion , a sugar plantation should be no desirable
object for a man to seek after . Any man with four or five chousand pounds may
get possession of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the
remainder of ...
c .; fo that in my humble opinion , a sugar plantation should be no desirable
object for a man to seek after . Any man with four or five chousand pounds may
get possession of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the
remainder of ...
الصفحة 73
... forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late prosperous
and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wishes ; he swells up an
enormous sum of debts , gets out an execution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c
...
... forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late prosperous
and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wishes ; he swells up an
enormous sum of debts , gets out an execution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c
...
الصفحة 80
The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of
circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active
and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable , shrewd
and ...
The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of
circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active
and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable , shrewd
and ...
الصفحة 83
... constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and
journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : «
Notwithstanding « all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has “ fuffered , I hope
I will be able ...
... constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and
journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : «
Notwithstanding « all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has “ fuffered , I hope
I will be able ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better 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 wenches Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf