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 36
... give a more fable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the me- tropolis , and contains about nine hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denomina- tions , and is about thirteen miles ...
... give a more fable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the me- tropolis , and contains about nine hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denomina- tions , and is about thirteen miles ...
الصفحة 42
... give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every ...
... give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every ...
الصفحة 44
... give them distempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour ...
... give them distempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultiva- tion , manure and labour ...
الصفحة 50
... give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or more than the ...
... give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or more than the ...
الصفحة 60
... give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All people are regarded according to their appearance and merit ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not ...
... give merit or vice the wreath or the rod . All people are regarded according to their appearance and merit ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not ...
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