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
... West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , εσ Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if ...
... West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , εσ Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if ...
الصفحة 78
... Indies , how imper- ceptably , like wax foftened by heat , they melt into their manners and cuftoms . In Europe , Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a ...
... Indies , how imper- ceptably , like wax foftened by heat , they melt into their manners and cuftoms . In Europe , Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a ...
الصفحة 81
... West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous ...
... West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous ...
الصفحة 85
... disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the Weft Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous · fa . IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . εξ.
... disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the Weft Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous · fa . IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . εξ.
الصفحة 88
... Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many mafters of flaves 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 mafters of flaves 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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