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 69
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftrators , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
... bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftrators , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
الصفحة 81
I was on many plantations , and am well acquainted with the nature of the cowfkin herd ; and though I have known feveral worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows .
I was on many plantations , and am well acquainted with the nature of the cowfkin herd ; and though I have known feveral worthy men among them , I am forry to say that the major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows .
الصفحة 92
... yet there is no rule without an exception ; I have known many candid , openhearted , impartial , and friendly Scotchmen ; fo that you must not despair of success , for you will have a chance as well as another .
... yet there is no rule without an exception ; I have known many candid , openhearted , impartial , and friendly Scotchmen ; fo that you must not despair of success , for you will have a chance as well as another .
الصفحة 101
... chosen a representative of the assembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradefmen , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies .
... chosen a representative of the assembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradefmen , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies .
الصفحة 106
1 muft not be too fevere , for I have known a few prudent fenfible Creole men , who lived within bounds , and paid their debts honeftly ; and further I will fay , that they are as capable of improvements in all the polite arts and ...
1 muft not be too fevere , for I have known a few prudent fenfible Creole men , who lived within bounds , and paid their debts honeftly ; and further I will fay , that they are as capable of improvements in all the polite arts and ...
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