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 73
... cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable ...
... cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable ...
الصفحة 75
... canes being too ripe , and burn- ing faster than they could be taken off : the laft twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well ...
... canes being too ripe , and burn- ing faster than they could be taken off : the laft twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well ...
الصفحة 77
... cane pieces . In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp ...
... cane pieces . In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp ...
الصفحة 82
... cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ... canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND ...
... cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ... canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND ...
الصفحة 84
... canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the fkeleton of a flave , who had been done over " in this manner , ( for breaking a cane , the root of which he himself probably planted , ) was found , he ...
... canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the fkeleton of a flave , who had been done over " in this manner , ( for breaking a cane , the root of which he himself probably planted , ) was found , he ...
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