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 73
... flaves to his property . An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's ...
... flaves to his property . An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's ...
الصفحة 75
... flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we shall make a better crop next year ; you ...
... flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we shall make a better crop next year ; you ...
الصفحة 81
... flaves for the sake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well ac- quainted with the nature of the cowskin herd ; and though I have known several worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean ...
... flaves for the sake of floging . I was on many plantations , and am well ac- quainted with the nature of the cowskin herd ; and though I have known several worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean ...
الصفحة 83
... flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , besides two boys to attend his horses , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are sufficient to attend two or ...
... flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , besides two boys to attend his horses , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are sufficient to attend two or ...
الصفحة 84
... flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them secretly ... flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for ...
... flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them secretly ... flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for ...
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