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 117
After dinner there were different basons with water introduced ( according to custom ) for every person to wash their hands ; but the military gentleman not being acquainted with the practice , instead of washing his hands , drank off ...
After dinner there were different basons with water introduced ( according to custom ) for every person to wash their hands ; but the military gentleman not being acquainted with the practice , instead of washing his hands , drank off ...
الصفحة 135
And to confirm this , says a very ludicrous writer , “ Not long since a cargo of them arrived in Jamaica , whose hands had little or no balis to the thumb , and whose nails were more of the claw kind than otherwise .
And to confirm this , says a very ludicrous writer , “ Not long since a cargo of them arrived in Jamaica , whose hands had little or no balis to the thumb , and whose nails were more of the claw kind than otherwise .
الصفحة 143
... battered and bruised by a white man , attempts to save his eyes , his nose , ears , & c . by lifting up his hand in his own defence , he is instantly brought to tryal before two or three calliloo justices , and immediately tucked up ...
... battered and bruised by a white man , attempts to save his eyes , his nose , ears , & c . by lifting up his hand in his own defence , he is instantly brought to tryal before two or three calliloo justices , and immediately tucked up ...
الصفحة 144
There their lives and properties are in the hands of their owners , nor can a Nave do any thing through a virtuous motive : therefore , Navery is bad in various respects : it is bad for the Nave , because he is compelled to act contrary ...
There their lives and properties are in the hands of their owners , nor can a Nave do any thing through a virtuous motive : therefore , Navery is bad in various respects : it is bad for the Nave , because he is compelled to act contrary ...
الصفحة 148
... hands and feet , to a ladder , and fogged severely : fometime after , when he was at work , the Overseer came to mortify him , saying , “ You black scoundrel , I'll cut your ! barkside to pieces if you don't make more puncheons ;.
... hands and feet , to a ladder , and fogged severely : fometime after , when he was at work , the Overseer came to mortify him , saying , “ You black scoundrel , I'll cut your ! barkside to pieces if you don't make more puncheons ;.
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