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 114
J. B. Moreton. the day were over , I often escorted them along lime or cane intervals , and fometimes through thickets of Guinea grafs fix or feven feet high , to pluck ftar apples , neefeberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the ...
J. B. Moreton. the day were over , I often escorted them along lime or cane intervals , and fometimes through thickets of Guinea grafs fix or feven feet high , to pluck ftar apples , neefeberries , oranges , & c . & c . at the ...
الصفحة 147
... canes for two or three days , fearful of returning , least they are paid with double fe- verity , fly to the mountains , and feek fhelter in the caverns of rocks for months together . By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of ...
... canes for two or three days , fearful of returning , least they are paid with double fe- verity , fly to the mountains , and feek fhelter in the caverns of rocks for months together . By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of ...
الصفحة 148
... canes ; and at the laft , when they are too clofely purfued , kill themselves alfo ; nay , it frequently happens , when flaves are too cruelly treated , after their fupplicating the Deity in the most humble and affecting manner , " Oh ...
... canes ; and at the laft , when they are too clofely purfued , kill themselves alfo ; nay , it frequently happens , when flaves are too cruelly treated , after their fupplicating the Deity in the most humble and affecting manner , " Oh ...
الصفحة 155
... cane , or bamboo , with holes in it , in imitation of a fife ; an an herring - barrel , or tub , with fheep - fkins fubftituted for the heads , in imitation of a drum , called a gum- bay but fometimes more " grandy balls , " as they are ...
... cane , or bamboo , with holes in it , in imitation of a fife ; an an herring - barrel , or tub , with fheep - fkins fubftituted for the heads , in imitation of a drum , called a gum- bay but fometimes more " grandy balls , " as they are ...
الصفحة 164
... cane grows fpontaneous in many parts ; confe- quently , if blacks were humanized , inftructed in arts and fciences , hufbandry and commerce , and made fenfible that the fhedding of their blood was at laft become heinous in the eyes of ...
... cane grows fpontaneous in many parts ; confe- quently , if blacks were humanized , inftructed in arts and fciences , hufbandry and commerce , and made fenfible that the fhedding of their blood was at laft become heinous in the eyes of ...
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