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 79
... Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of ...
... Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of ...
الصفحة 85
... ! I 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 fa- lary ; IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 85.
... ! I 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 fa- lary ; IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 85.
الصفحة 93
... Jamaica . In the windward iflands the falary is greater , as they must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an ...
... Jamaica . In the windward iflands the falary is greater , as they must board themselves ; in those islands any man may get an overfeer's birth ( called a management ) through intereft ; in Jamaica it is not fo ; for I never knew an ...
الصفحة 95
... Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raife ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country ...
... Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raife ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country ...
الصفحة 97
... Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter ...
... Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter ...
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