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 70
... heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into ...
... heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into ...
الصفحة 79
... , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrowminded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
... , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrowminded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
الصفحة 80
... heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there ...
... heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intricate ; there ...
الصفحة 81
... hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " . The first and most effential qualifications fuch ...
... hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " . The first and most effential qualifications fuch ...
الصفحة 83
... hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ftouteft flaves for ...
... hero and his two deputies , befides two boys to attend his horfes , makes the number twenty - fix . I think that fix flaves are fufficient to attend two or three men , and rather too many ; he always appointed the ftouteft flaves for ...
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