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 57
J. B. Moreton. Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , fuppofing keeping ... attended with no finall expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred ...
J. B. Moreton. Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing a sugar plantation , fuppofing keeping ... attended with no finall expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred ...
الصفحة 58
... attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the manage- ment of one who ...
... attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the manage- ment of one who ...
الصفحة 66
... attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment . There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich mer- chants and planters ; the whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ...
... attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment . There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich mer- chants and planters ; the whole tribe affift each other with money or credit ...
الصفحة 79
... attend them ; they rear ( where they are induftri- ously inclined ) abundance of sheep , goats , swine , and poultry , for themselves and their book- keepers ; befides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef , Port ...
... attend them ; they rear ( where they are induftri- ously inclined ) abundance of sheep , goats , swine , and poultry , for themselves and their book- keepers ; befides , the proprietors furnish them yearly with falt - beef , Port ...
الصفحة 83
... attend a cowfkin hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ...
... attend a cowfkin hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ...
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