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 63
... five years very faithful- ly , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he was generously support- ed for three or four years ; if his genius had not E 4 been been fo long cramped in a ftore and compting- house IN ...
... five years very faithful- ly , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he was generously support- ed for three or four years ; if his genius had not E 4 been been fo long cramped in a ftore and compting- house IN ...
الصفحة 64
... five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young ...
... five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young ...
الصفحة 67
... five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr ...
... five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewise Mr ...
الصفحة 68
... five dollars a barrel - isn't this a good joke ? And now I have rented a ftore from a Jew , Who fwears he'll affift me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he ftripped his arin naked and girded it , and wore a leathern horn on his ...
... five dollars a barrel - isn't this a good joke ? And now I have rented a ftore from a Jew , Who fwears he'll affift me to cheat at vendue ; * When he prayed , he ftripped his arin naked and girded it , and wore a leathern horn on his ...
الصفحة 70
... five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes ...
... five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes ...
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