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 80
The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of circumstances which appearances only can reach ; an overseer should be active and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable , shrewd ...
The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there are thousands of circumstances which appearances only can reach ; an overseer should be active and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable , shrewd ...
الصفحة 81
fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , whereby he might be capacle of conducting business without rigid severity.Heavens ! how few are fit for so weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West ...
fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , whereby he might be capacle of conducting business without rigid severity.Heavens ! how few are fit for so weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West ...
الصفحة 92
... he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I observed to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modest behaviour and appear . ance will recommend him in the country ...
... he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I observed to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modest behaviour and appear . ance will recommend him in the country ...
الصفحة 99
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
الصفحة 100
... and they may fet him up in business ; I knew in business ; I knew many supercargoes who were intrusted with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant chan men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at ...
... and they may fet him up in business ; I knew in business ; I knew many supercargoes who were intrusted with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant chan men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at ...
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