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 121
... master ; he would know the value of a truly virtuous woman better than the bashful youth who never went aftray . " Who can find a vir- tuous woman ? For her price is far above rubies . " Do not imagine from what I have faid , that every ...
... master ; he would know the value of a truly virtuous woman better than the bashful youth who never went aftray . " Who can find a vir- tuous woman ? For her price is far above rubies . " Do not imagine from what I have faid , that every ...
الصفحة 144
... master : - there was a fimilar law at Rome , fo that flaves in thofe places had fome protection ; but how is it in the West Indies ? There their lives and pro- perties are in the hands of their owners , nor can a flave do any thing ...
... master : - there was a fimilar law at Rome , fo that flaves in thofe places had fome protection ; but how is it in the West Indies ? There their lives and pro- perties are in the hands of their owners , nor can a flave do any thing ...
الصفحة 148
... masters , and burn and destroy houfes and canes ; and at the laft , when they are too clofely purfued , kill themselves alfo ; nay , it frequently happens , when flaves are too cruelly treated , after their fupplicating the Deity in the ...
... masters , and burn and destroy houfes and canes ; and at the laft , when they are too clofely purfued , kill themselves alfo ; nay , it frequently happens , when flaves are too cruelly treated , after their fupplicating the Deity in the ...
الصفحة 153
... masters and overfeers , of jealous , pimp ing difpofitions , flog , and otherwife ill treat their black wenches , when they chance to get black children . I have been often diverted , and laughed heartily , when a raw , infatuated ...
... masters and overfeers , of jealous , pimp ing difpofitions , flog , and otherwife ill treat their black wenches , when they chance to get black children . I have been often diverted , and laughed heartily , when a raw , infatuated ...
الصفحة 155
... master debauched his flave , fhe was to be reftored to her freedom ; and , if she had a husband , him alfo . Notwithstanding all their hardships , they are fond of plays and merriment ; and if not pre- vented by whites , according to a ...
... master debauched his flave , fhe was to be reftored to her freedom ; and , if she had a husband , him alfo . Notwithstanding all their hardships , they are fond of plays and merriment ; and if not pre- vented by whites , according to a ...
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