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 13
... fuppofe it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live this reclufe life , where he recommends a married life , but fays , " a fingle life is better " . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the fense of that cafe is plain from ...
... fuppofe it is a paffage in St. Paul that induces them to live this reclufe life , where he recommends a married life , but fays , " a fingle life is better " . If so , they are fadly deceived , for the fense of that cafe is plain from ...
الصفحة 24
... fuppofe thousands and thousands have by that means caufed their own deaths . Though you be ever fo warm and drowsy , do not attempt to fleep where you will be exposed to the the night air , or heavy dews , which too 24 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... fuppofe thousands and thousands have by that means caufed their own deaths . Though you be ever fo warm and drowsy , do not attempt to fleep where you will be exposed to the the night air , or heavy dews , which too 24 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 59
... fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for ...
... fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 60l . an ox for ...
الصفحة 63
... fuppofe the place of the marshal of Kingstown is worth from two to three thousand pounds yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales ...
... fuppofe the place of the marshal of Kingstown is worth from two to three thousand pounds yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales ...
الصفحة 76
... fuppofe have any fouls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estate , I have ordered the manager to give them no allowance ; as faft as they die I fhall fup- ply their places by new negroes which will answer very well . I have ...
... fuppofe have any fouls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estate , I have ordered the manager to give them no allowance ; as faft as they die I fhall fup- ply their places by new negroes which will answer very well . I have ...
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