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 82
... flaves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously ...
... flaves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously ...
الصفحة 83
... flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or ...
... flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or ...
الصفحة 84
... flaves in purfuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a flave , who ...
... flaves in purfuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a flave , who ...
الصفحة 87
... flaves to fet in and hoe them up . What fay you , Mr. Fungee ? " Poor Fungee was fo confounded that he was incapable to reply ; confcious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how ...
... flaves to fet in and hoe them up . What fay you , Mr. Fungee ? " Poor Fungee was fo confounded that he was incapable to reply ; confcious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how ...
الصفحة 88
... , and feldom extends further than that of their vaft confequence and authority over the flaves , their uncommon abilities as planters , their amours and 1 1 1 and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their 88 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... , and feldom extends further than that of their vaft confequence and authority over the flaves , their uncommon abilities as planters , their amours and 1 1 1 and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their 88 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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