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 71
... friends , or relations , but prefer the induftrious book - keepers or overfeers in his own employ- ment , whofe merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through ...
... friends , or relations , but prefer the induftrious book - keepers or overfeers in his own employ- ment , whofe merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through ...
الصفحة 73
... 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 pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger ...
... 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 pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger ...
الصفحة 74
J. B. Moreton. An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , su- gar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney ...
J. B. Moreton. An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , su- gar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney ...
الصفحة 75
... friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , induftrious young man . As to what you mention refpecting the crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he ...
... friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , induftrious young man . As to what you mention refpecting the crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he ...
الصفحة 77
... friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . These poor wretches wash themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves ...
... friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . These poor wretches wash themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves ...
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