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 70
J. B. Moreton. honeft men ) who made no remittances at all , though some of them had it in their power to make large ones . The greedy vultures ! ava- ricious fycophants ! difhoneftly revelled in excefs and debauchery , until the ...
J. B. Moreton. honeft men ) who made no remittances at all , though some of them had it in their power to make large ones . The greedy vultures ! ava- ricious fycophants ! difhoneftly revelled in excefs and debauchery , until the ...
الصفحة 73
... some other bafe ftratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be for- given by their new mafter ; by which fervile ftra- tagem he gets an addition of fo many flaves ...
... some other bafe ftratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be for- given by their new mafter ; by which fervile ftra- tagem he gets an addition of fo many flaves ...
الصفحة 74
... Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an ...
... Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an ...
الصفحة 83
... some of the best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washer- women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them ...
... some of the best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washer- women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them ...
الصفحة 91
... Some years ago the West Indies fuited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly transports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
... Some years ago the West Indies fuited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly transports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
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