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 84
J. B. Moreton. there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best slaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i ...
J. B. Moreton. there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best slaves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i ...
الصفحة 93
... in rotation , he should strive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues three or four years G 3 on on one plantation it will be a recommendation to him IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 93.
... in rotation , he should strive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues three or four years G 3 on on one plantation it will be a recommendation to him IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 93.
الصفحة 96
... four days , the best method I ever could learn , was to have a tub , ( half a puncheon ) with a falfe bottom full of holes , or a basket , fup- ported by a few bricks , with a few gallons of wa- ter beneath ; the meat should be falted ...
... four days , the best method I ever could learn , was to have a tub , ( half a puncheon ) with a falfe bottom full of holes , or a basket , fup- ported by a few bricks , with a few gallons of wa- ter beneath ; the meat should be falted ...
الصفحة 97
... four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter , fawn , cringe , lye , and diffemble , during the time , and tamely bear the overfeer's infults and reproaches without murmuring , he will be recommended as an active , clever , fine ...
... four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter , fawn , cringe , lye , and diffemble , during the time , and tamely bear the overfeer's infults and reproaches without murmuring , he will be recommended as an active , clever , fine ...
الصفحة 99
... four or five years to be capital merchants ; there are a variety of ways and means by which clerks afcend . If a poor young man serves a merchant three or four years so as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put ...
... four or five years to be capital merchants ; there are a variety of ways and means by which clerks afcend . If a poor young man serves a merchant three or four years so as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put ...
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