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 distinction ob- ferved among them as in the Weft India Islands . The meaneft 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 distinction ob- ferved among them as in the Weft India Islands . The meaneft 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 , difcafe and pain , Whilft I'm a cowfkin 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 , difcafe and pain , Whilft I'm a cowfkin 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 himfelf clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overseers 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 himfelf clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overseers 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 passions 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 passions 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 coft commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſe drink eftate eſtate expence faid falt fame faſhionable fave ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhips fhould fickly filk filly finging firſt flaves fmall fome fometimes foon friends ftill ftock ftores ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fure fweet gentlemen Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep Kingſton laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeer's overfeers Overſeers paffing perfon plantation planter pleaſe poffible poor Port-Royal Quadroon refpect ſeveral ſhe ſkimmings ſmall ſome ſpeak tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft Indies wenches Weſt whilft whofe wine women young yourſelf