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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... flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my furprize ...
... flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my furprize ...
الصفحة 64
... flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are ...
... flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are ...
الصفحة 69
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming 4 honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming 4 honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
الصفحة 71
... flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should 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 ; he ...
... flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should 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 ; he ...
الصفحة 73
... flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an ...
... flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an ...
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