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 75
... please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has . been owing to the canes being too ripe , and ...
... please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has . been owing to the canes being too ripe , and ...
الصفحة 76
... please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I fhall be clear of debt , which I long for much , that I may once more return to dear old England . I am thankful to you for ...
... please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I fhall be clear of debt , which I long for much , that I may once more return to dear old England . I am thankful to you for ...
الصفحة 90
... please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous cowfkin hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour ...
... please him if I can . Bleft with the charge of an estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous cowfkin hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour ...
الصفحة 93
... book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues three or four years G3 on on one plantation it will be a recommendation to him IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 93.
... book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues three or four years G3 on on one plantation it will be a recommendation to him IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 93.
الصفحة 94
... please to obferve this , to be fecret , and not to let any man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their affistance . The first charge a book - keeper ...
... please to obferve this , to be fecret , and not to let any man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their affistance . The first charge a book - keeper ...
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