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 71
... eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ...
... eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ...
الصفحة 72
... eftate , whilft the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a ...
... eftate , whilft the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a ...
الصفحة 73
... eftate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle paftures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods ...
... eftate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle paftures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods ...
الصفحة 74
... eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in ...
... eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own ufe ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in ...
الصفحة 75
... eftate . You will please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has . been owing to the canes being ...
... eftate . You will please to order infurance accordingly . Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the fugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has . been owing to the canes being ...
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