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 51
... house built , I might juft as well attempt , with a few negroe mafons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I might just as ...
... house built , I might juft as well attempt , with a few negroe mafons or carpenters , to build an elegant structure , ornamented and decorated in a mechanical manner ; or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I might just as ...
الصفحة 55
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
الصفحة 57
... houses , and diftill - houfe , with all the conveniencies be- longing to them , fuch as coppers , ftills , vats , cifterns , refervoirs , gutters and pumps , manager's house , stores , & c . & c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred ...
... houses , and diftill - houfe , with all the conveniencies be- longing to them , fuch as coppers , ftills , vats , cifterns , refervoirs , gutters and pumps , manager's house , stores , & c . & c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred ...
الصفحة 59
... house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt ...
... house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation , the interest of which is 960l . A colt ...
الصفحة 62
... re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhnefs ; that he took me to be a mar- fhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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