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 33
... fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns ...
... fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns ...
الصفحة 38
... fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy ...
... fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly the rainy ...
الصفحة 64
... fome ' business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit ...
... fome ' business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit ...
الصفحة 77
... fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . These poor ...
... fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . These poor ...
الصفحة 80
... amongst the slaves , as to their dispositions , health , strength , food and raiment ; he should not only be a quack in physic , but should have fome r some knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , 80 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... amongst the slaves , as to their dispositions , health , strength , food and raiment ; he should not only be a quack in physic , but should have fome r some knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , 80 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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