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 69
... & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honef honeft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69 Where, if I fucceed, I will fettle content...
... & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honef honeft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69 Where, if I fucceed, I will fettle content...
الصفحة 81
... known feveral worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves ...
... known feveral worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves ...
الصفحة 92
... known many candid , open- hearted , impartial , and friendly Scotchmen ; fo that you must not defpair of fuccefs , for you will have a chance as well as another . I fhall now en- deavour to point out to you the different grada- tions ...
... known many candid , open- hearted , impartial , and friendly Scotchmen ; fo that you must not defpair of fuccefs , for you will have a chance as well as another . I fhall now en- deavour to point out to you the different grada- tions ...
الصفحة 101
... known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the ...
... known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the ...
الصفحة 106
... known a few prudent fenfible Creole men , who lived with- in bounds , and paid their debts honeftly ; and further I will fay that they are as capable of im- provements in all the polite arts and fciences as other men ; if talents of ...
... known a few prudent fenfible Creole men , who lived with- in bounds , and paid their debts honeftly ; and further I will fay that they are as capable of im- provements in all the polite arts and fciences as other men ; if talents of ...
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