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 81
... first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their ...
... first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the flaves ; their minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their ...
الصفحة 94
... first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the ...
... first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the ...
الصفحة 95
... first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the ...
... first . He muft every morning enter in his book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the ...
الصفحة 100
... first cost ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends . From what I have faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are ftyled merchants in the West Indies , they are only factors ; and here I ...
... first cost ; and by bad management and diffipation ruined themselves and friends . From what I have faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are ftyled merchants in the West Indies , they are only factors ; and here I ...
الصفحة 138
... first father and mother , instead of gaudy drefs , breeches and petticoats , we fhould wear only the leaves of trees to hide our nakednefs , and would be in the fame innocent ftate as blacks were be- fore they were corrupted by our first ...
... first father and mother , instead of gaudy drefs , breeches and petticoats , we fhould wear only the leaves of trees to hide our nakednefs , and would be in the fame innocent ftate as blacks were be- fore they were corrupted by our first ...
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