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 Edition |
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الصفحة 128
When you are fometime in the country , get yourself introduced by fome friendly acquaintance ; the affectation of these gipfies will difpel care , and make you laugh heartily ; befides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting ...
When you are fometime in the country , get yourself introduced by fome friendly acquaintance ; the affectation of these gipfies will difpel care , and make you laugh heartily ; befides , you will have opportunities of feeing and getting ...
الصفحة 137
bling men in Africa , that they at times attack and defeat armed men , that they are lafcivious and fond of women , and that it may fometimes happen when an odd one of the latter gets aftray in the woods , that fhe may be overpowered ...
bling men in Africa , that they at times attack and defeat armed men , that they are lafcivious and fond of women , and that it may fometimes happen when an odd one of the latter gets aftray in the woods , that fhe may be overpowered ...
الصفحة 147
By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of Overseers , mafters are deprived of the labour of many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and fometimes loose them all together ; for being expofed to the heavy rains ...
By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of Overseers , mafters are deprived of the labour of many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and fometimes loose them all together ; for being expofed to the heavy rains ...
الصفحة 148
It fometimes but not frequently happens , that those unhappy wretches , in a state of ftarvation , grow defperate at their fate , and refolve to redrefs their wrongs , and gain their freedom , or to perifh in the conteft ; they form ...
It fometimes but not frequently happens , that those unhappy wretches , in a state of ftarvation , grow defperate at their fate , and refolve to redrefs their wrongs , and gain their freedom , or to perifh in the conteft ; they form ...
الصفحة 155
... and if not prevented by whites , according to a law of the ifland , they will meet on Saturday - nights , hundreds of them in gangs , and dance and fing till morning ; nay , fometimes they continue their balls without intermiffion ...
... and if not prevented by whites , according to a law of the ifland , they will meet on Saturday - nights , hundreds of them in gangs , and dance and fing till morning ; nay , fometimes they continue their balls without intermiffion ...
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