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 Edition |
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الصفحة 70
... all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by such ignoble schemes . ac “ Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , Tempt not my envy , but provoke my scorn . " An attorney to an estate , or plantation , has a ...
... all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by such ignoble schemes . ac “ Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , Tempt not my envy , but provoke my scorn . " An attorney to an estate , or plantation , has a ...
الصفحة 78
... passions and sensacions are from those in colder regions ; and even men from other countries , when they get innured to the West Indies , how imperceptably , like wax softened by heat , they melt into their manners and customs .
... passions and sensacions are from those in colder regions ; and even men from other countries , when they get innured to the West Indies , how imperceptably , like wax softened by heat , they melt into their manners and customs .
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 85
I am sorry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Consequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ES.
I am sorry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Consequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ES.
الصفحة 88
Overseers endeavour to persuade that it must be so , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of Naves entertain the same nocion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for ...
Overseers endeavour to persuade that it must be so , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of Naves entertain the same nocion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for ...
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