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 71
... book - keepers or overfeers in his own employ- ment , whofe merits and long painful fervitude deferved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer ...
... book - keepers or overfeers in his own employ- ment , whofe merits and long painful fervitude deferved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer ...
الصفحة 79
... Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occasion to speak of either in future , I fhall calf them overfeers and book - keepers . Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Euro ...
... Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occasion to speak of either in future , I fhall calf them overfeers and book - keepers . Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Euro ...
الصفحة 80
... book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the ...
... book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the ...
الصفحة 81
... book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin ...
... book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin ...
الصفحة 82
... book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every base means to injure them , leaft they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like ...
... book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every base means to injure them , leaft they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like ...
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