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 71
... or relations , but prefer the induftrious book - keepers or overfeers in his own employment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the ...
... or relations , but prefer the induftrious book - keepers or overfeers in his own employment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the ...
الصفحة 79
... and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers and book - keepers .
... and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers and book - keepers .
الصفحة 80
to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could fuch a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life ...
to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could fuch a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life ...
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed 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 flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 82
Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted ...
Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted ...
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