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 74
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
الصفحة 83
... warren and pidgeons ; here is a list of twenty - four Naves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , besides two boys to attend his horses , makes the number twenty - six .
... warren and pidgeons ; here is a list of twenty - four Naves kept from plantation duty every day in the year , to attend a cowskin hero and his two deputies , besides two boys to attend his horses , makes the number twenty - six .
الصفحة 84
... special care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horses , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accommodations for ftrangers ; so that he was frequently surrounded by.
... special care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horses , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accommodations for ftrangers ; so that he was frequently surrounded by.
الصفحة 85
... he was preferred to the management of a fine estate in the parish of Vere ; the little shuttle - driver , being elevated from the threadle to a cowskin hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was soon honoured ...
... he was preferred to the management of a fine estate in the parish of Vere ; the little shuttle - driver , being elevated from the threadle to a cowskin hero , purchased horses , a kitterine , and fine clothes , and was soon honoured ...
الصفحة 86
An overseer should be allowed a generous salary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horses , cattle , nor stock of any kind , to sell or barter for his own emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to dispose of any of the estate's ...
An overseer should be allowed a generous salary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horses , cattle , nor stock of any kind , to sell or barter for his own emolument ; nor should he be intrusted to dispose of any of the estate's ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt 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 ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf