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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... yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly ...
... yearly , befides the benefit of venereals , for which he makes a feparate charge , fo that he commonly gets about one hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly ...
الصفحة 34
... yearly , by going in proceffion to church , and having fermons preached on the occafion , and afterwards dining all together , and paffing the evening in mirth and chearfulness . In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to ...
... yearly , by going in proceffion to church , and having fermons preached on the occafion , and afterwards dining all together , and paffing the evening in mirth and chearfulness . In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to ...
الصفحة 38
... yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thoufand ...
... yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thoufand ...
الصفحة 57
... Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons of rum , the fugar to net IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
... Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons of rum , the fugar to net IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
الصفحة 63
... yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houfes and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses . There are ...
... yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houfes and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses . There are ...
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