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 117
... hands ; but the military gen- tleman not being acquainted with the practice , inftead of washing his hands , drank off the con- tents of his bason , which occafioned fome of the gentlemen to smile , and the young ladies to laugh ...
... hands ; but the military gen- tleman not being acquainted with the practice , inftead of washing his hands , drank off the con- tents of his bason , which occafioned fome of the gentlemen to smile , and the young ladies to laugh ...
الصفحة 135
... hands had little or no balls to the thumb , and whofe nails were more of the claw kind than otherwife . " This is a moft abfurd affertion - a notorious falfehood : for I have feen thousands and tens of thousands of both Africans and ...
... hands had little or no balls to the thumb , and whofe nails were more of the claw kind than otherwife . " This is a moft abfurd affertion - a notorious falfehood : for I have feen thousands and tens of thousands of both Africans and ...
الصفحة 143
... hand in his own defence , he is in- ftantly brought to tryal before two or three cal- liloo juftices , and immediately tucked up ; this is , I appeal to all the world , a more cruel , un- just and barbarous law than any of thofe of old ...
... hand in his own defence , he is in- ftantly brought to tryal before two or three cal- liloo juftices , and immediately tucked up ; this is , I appeal to all the world , a more cruel , un- just and barbarous law than any of thofe of old ...
الصفحة 144
... hands of their owners , nor can a flave do any thing through a virtuous motive : therefore , flavery is bad in various respects : it is bad for the flave , because he is compelled to act contrary to his difpofition , to break the com ...
... hands of their owners , nor can a flave do any thing through a virtuous motive : therefore , flavery is bad in various respects : it is bad for the flave , because he is compelled to act contrary to his difpofition , to break the com ...
الصفحة 148
... hands and feet , to a ladder , and flogged feverely : fometime after , when he was at work , the Overfeer came to mortify him , faying , " You black fcoundrel , I'll cut your . backfide barkfide to pieces if you don't make more ...
... hands and feet , to a ladder , and flogged feverely : fometime after , when he was at work , the Overfeer came to mortify him , faying , " You black fcoundrel , I'll cut your . backfide barkfide to pieces if you don't make more ...
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