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 162
... fields , and their near and dear relations at the back of their huts , and fometimes under their beds ; they are extremely fuperftitious , and firmly believe that the ghofts of their dead haunt the plantations for a long time after ...
... fields , and their near and dear relations at the back of their huts , and fometimes under their beds ; they are extremely fuperftitious , and firmly believe that the ghofts of their dead haunt the plantations for a long time after ...
الصفحة 165
... field , " and her fons and daughters which are yet unborn to laugh and fing , it would be neceffary for all the Christian nations in Europe and America to enter into a treaty prohibiting the flave trade ; next , to keep ftrong bodies of ...
... field , " and her fons and daughters which are yet unborn to laugh and fing , it would be neceffary for all the Christian nations in Europe and America to enter into a treaty prohibiting the flave trade ; next , to keep ftrong bodies of ...
الصفحة 174
... fields , the gran- dieur of the trees and shrubs , vocal with the me- lody of feathered fongfters innumerable , fill his mind with delightful fenfations ! he joins the warbling chorifters of Heaven , in grateful ftrains of adoration and ...
... fields , the gran- dieur of the trees and shrubs , vocal with the me- lody of feathered fongfters innumerable , fill his mind with delightful fenfations ! he joins the warbling chorifters of Heaven , in grateful ftrains of adoration and ...
الصفحة 176
... field for cheating . When gamblers are not in conjunction , they purchase packs of cards , and prepare falfe dice , which they manage with great dexterity or fleight of hand . They , in private , put private marks upon the cards and ...
... field for cheating . When gamblers are not in conjunction , they purchase packs of cards , and prepare falfe dice , which they manage with great dexterity or fleight of hand . They , in private , put private marks upon the cards and ...
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