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 84
J. B. Moreton. there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best slaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i ...
J. B. Moreton. there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best slaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i ...
الصفحة 89
... commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary ...
... commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary ...
الصفحة 92
... commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you before ...
... commonly go through to arrive at any degree of greatnefs . When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I obferved to you before ...
الصفحة 94
... commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends , or merit ; fo you will pleafe to obferve this , to be fecret , and not to let any man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to ...
... commonly jealous when they perceive that their book - keepers have friends , or merit ; fo you will pleafe to obferve this , to be fecret , and not to let any man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to ...
الصفحة 97
... commonly gives his firft year's falary for a horfe ; for though in the Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the ...
... commonly gives his firft year's falary for a horfe ; for though in the Windward Islands gen- tlemen ride mules , it would be confidered a dif- grace in Jamaica for the pooreft man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the ...
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