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 81
... so that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which soften and dignify our nature ; the most insignificant Connought savage bumpkin , or silly Highland gauky , will soon learn to flog without mercy to shew his ...
... so that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which soften and dignify our nature ; the most insignificant Connought savage bumpkin , or silly Highland gauky , will soon learn to flog without mercy to shew his ...
الصفحة 87
Poor Fungee was so confounded that he was incapable to reply ; conscious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how miserably was this lofty cowskin hero fallen ...
Poor Fungee was so confounded that he was incapable to reply ; conscious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how miserably was this lofty cowskin hero fallen ...
الصفحة 94
... man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their assistance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ...
... man know the bottom of your heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their assistance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and poultry ...
الصفحة 104
remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for justice , it is a violation of the law , and a strong proof of the depravity of the human heart . How odious must men appear who are chosen out from among the rest to distribute ...
remorseless Guinea captain ) who applies to them for justice , it is a violation of the law , and a strong proof of the depravity of the human heart . How odious must men appear who are chosen out from among the rest to distribute ...
الصفحة 105
... as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of dissipation invites ; so that their hearts and fortunes seldom agree ; for they are extremely extravagant , and know not the value of money or effects . till they want them .
... as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of dissipation invites ; so that their hearts and fortunes seldom agree ; for they are extremely extravagant , and know not the value of money or effects . till they want them .
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf