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 85
Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one of the best parishes in the iliand , he was preferred to the ...
Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one of the best parishes in the iliand , he was preferred to the ...
الصفحة 89
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their infulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or expofing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their infulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or expofing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
الصفحة 90
Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I furely kick them out of place .
Sometimes I just take a ride , Over the plantation wide ; Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I furely kick them out of place .
الصفحة 93
... The ufual falary for a book - keeper in the country , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging ... in the windward iflands , book - keepers are not permitted to mefs at overfeer's tables , for which reafon they are not ...
... The ufual falary for a book - keeper in the country , is £ 40 per annum , with board , washing and lodging ... in the windward iflands , book - keepers are not permitted to mefs at overfeer's tables , for which reafon they are not ...
الصفحة 94
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to ...
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to ...
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