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 79
... live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction ob- ferved among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest clafs of adventurers fucceed beft in the planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or ...
... live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction ob- ferved among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest clafs of adventurers fucceed beft in the planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or ...
الصفحة 88
... lives of both and to get as much labour as poffible out of them . Even creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice ...
... lives of both and to get as much labour as poffible out of them . Even creole children , as foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice ...
الصفحة 90
... live in eafe , with health and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS ...
... live in eafe , with health and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS ...
الصفحة 98
... lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco- nomy if he keeps himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and ...
... lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco- nomy if he keeps himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and ...
الصفحة 112
... live peaceably and quiet on their plantations - no , they must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy ...
... live peaceably and quiet on their plantations - no , they must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf