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 71
... he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employment , whole merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short ...
... he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employment , whole merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short ...
الصفحة 73
dischages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy fellow ( one of his own friends no doubt ) in his stead ; he gives a large falary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane ...
dischages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy fellow ( one of his own friends no doubt ) in his stead ; he gives a large falary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane ...
الصفحة 74
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
الصفحة 75
... our mutual friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made ihree hundred hogsheads yearly ...
... our mutual friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made ihree hundred hogsheads yearly ...
الصفحة 77
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gentlemen ; 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 ...
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gentlemen ; 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 ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf