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 64
... four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish ...
... four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish ...
الصفحة 70
... four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble ...
... four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by fuch ignoble ...
الصفحة 71
... an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 71.
... an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be capable of doing justice ; formerly IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 71.
الصفحة 80
... four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur , ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches ...
... four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur , ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches ...
الصفحة 83
... four flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowfkin 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 ...
... four flaves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowfkin 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 ...
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