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 106
... commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended fpoufes ready made before them , yet it does ...
... commonly keep black or mungrel women till a day or two before they enter into the serious bond of marriage ; and though there may be a family of different coloured children of their intended fpoufes ready made before them , yet it does ...
الصفحة 112
... commonly happens when they wish to conceal their tricks , that they are fent to Europe for their education ; one of them feldom remains any time in England , till fame founds " a rich West Indian heiress . " She foon gets a number of ...
... commonly happens when they wish to conceal their tricks , that they are fent to Europe for their education ; one of them feldom remains any time in England , till fame founds " a rich West Indian heiress . " She foon gets a number of ...
الصفحة 113
... commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in this I must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different ...
... commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in this I must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different ...
الصفحة 128
... commonly taught to read and write , when their parents can afford it ; and every one gets more education in the heels than in the head , ( for , like the white Creoles , they are amazing fond of dancing ) ; when one of them makes a ball ...
... commonly taught to read and write , when their parents can afford it ; and every one gets more education in the heels than in the head , ( for , like the white Creoles , they are amazing fond of dancing ) ; when one of them makes a ball ...
الصفحة 144
... newspapers , that on a certain day will be fold a choice parcel of prime flaves ; and though they may be a mixture of different countries , fuch as Mucco's Mucco's , Coromanties , & c . they commonly fet 144 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... newspapers , that on a certain day will be fold a choice parcel of prime flaves ; and though they may be a mixture of different countries , fuch as Mucco's Mucco's , Coromanties , & c . they commonly fet 144 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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