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 141
... field are better protected by the laws than flaves in the West Indies : for if a horfe or a cow is wan- tonly killed , or deprived of the tail or horns , or any way malicioufly maimed , diligent enquiry is made , and if the offender be ...
... field are better protected by the laws than flaves in the West Indies : for if a horfe or a cow is wan- tonly killed , or deprived of the tail or horns , or any way malicioufly maimed , diligent enquiry is made , and if the offender be ...
الصفحة 146
... field , they deliver to the cooks each a small earthen or metal pot and calabash , with fomething or other to prepare for breakfaft ( there are commonly two or three invalid women appointed for cooks , and to carry water ) . About nine ...
... field , they deliver to the cooks each a small earthen or metal pot and calabash , with fomething or other to prepare for breakfaft ( there are commonly two or three invalid women appointed for cooks , and to carry water ) . About nine ...
الصفحة 147
... field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the di- rection of the book - keeper , who attends to call the lift . Here I must observe , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his book- keepers with power ...
... field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the di- rection of the book - keeper , who attends to call the lift . Here I must observe , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his book- keepers with power ...
الصفحة 152
... fields . till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate , is ferviceable to child - bearing women ) ... field . There is com- monly fome invalid women appointed to take care of the children , to guard them from fnakes ...
... fields . till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate , is ferviceable to child - bearing women ) ... field . There is com- monly fome invalid women appointed to take care of the children , to guard them from fnakes ...
الصفحة 154
... field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almost as white as miffefs ...
... field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almost as white as miffefs ...
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