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
... Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he ...
... Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he ...
الصفحة 78
... Indies , how imperceptably , like wax foftened by heat , they melt into their manners and customs . In Europe ; Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ...
... Indies , how imperceptably , like wax foftened by heat , they melt into their manners and customs . In Europe ; Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ...
الصفحة 81
... Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all ...
... Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all ...
الصفحة 85
... am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies , An An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .. 85.
... am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies , An An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .. 85.
الصفحة 88
... Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of naves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to preferve the lives of both and to ...
... Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of naves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to preferve the lives of both and to ...
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