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 51
... overseers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in threeorfour months ; and good or badınanagement then may affect the proprietor very much . When I ...
... overseers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in threeorfour months ; and good or badınanagement then may affect the proprietor very much . When I ...
الصفحة 55
... of preferment , think attention to the distill - house a menial part of plantership , and when they become cowskin heroes , or managers , are ! are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
... of preferment , think attention to the distill - house a menial part of plantership , and when they become cowskin heroes , or managers , are ! are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
الصفحة 56
J. B. Moreton ! are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes in so interesting a branch . The heads of the stills should be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ...
J. B. Moreton ! are totally ignorant of instructing their overseers or negroes in so interesting a branch . The heads of the stills should be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ...
الصفحة 61
... overseers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
... overseers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
الصفحة 62
... overseers , with some trusty negroes , keep a constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the slaves , and other ...
... overseers , with some trusty negroes , keep a constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the slaves , and other ...
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