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 66
... give evi- dence among Chriftians , which I think is a dan- gerous fyftem , as it is well known they pay no regard to the Chriftian faith . I was credibly in- formed that the legislature , not twenty years ago , were about enacting a law ...
... give evi- dence among Chriftians , which I think is a dan- gerous fyftem , as it is well known they pay no regard to the Chriftian faith . I was credibly in- formed that the legislature , not twenty years ago , were about enacting a law ...
الصفحة 73
... gives a large falary , and the eftate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle paftures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild ...
... gives a large falary , and the eftate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle paftures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild ...
الصفحة 74
... give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of ...
... give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of ...
الصفحة 76
... give them no allowance ; as faft as they die I fhall fup- ply their places by new negroes which will answer very well . I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs ...
... give them no allowance ; as faft as they die I fhall fup- ply their places by new negroes which will answer very well . I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs ...
الصفحة 87
... give up charge of the plan- tation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this : the cabbage- headed gentleman in Kingstown was related to Fungee , and had been always fupplied with mutton , pork , and ...
... give up charge of the plan- tation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this : the cabbage- headed gentleman in Kingstown was related to Fungee , and had been always fupplied with mutton , pork , and ...
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