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 135
Different parties of them traverse the island , and go armed ; they take up runaway negroes and bring them to their mafters , for every one of which they are paid at a certain rate per mile . When king Cudjo dies , his eldest fon or ...
Different parties of them traverse the island , and go armed ; they take up runaway negroes and bring them to their mafters , for every one of which they are paid at a certain rate per mile . When king Cudjo dies , his eldest fon or ...
الصفحة 143
Though there is a claufe in the Slave Act , fetting forth , That if any mafter or owner of a flave gives more than thirty - nine ftripes at one time to his flave , he is liable to be indicted before the justices of the peace in their ...
Though there is a claufe in the Slave Act , fetting forth , That if any mafter or owner of a flave gives more than thirty - nine ftripes at one time to his flave , he is liable to be indicted before the justices of the peace in their ...
الصفحة 144
By a law of the Greeks , when a slave was barbarously tr ated by his mafter , he could infift on being fold , and could chufe another mafter :there was a fimilar law at Rome , fo that flaves in thofe places had fome protection ; but how ...
By a law of the Greeks , when a slave was barbarously tr ated by his mafter , he could infift on being fold , and could chufe another mafter :there was a fimilar law at Rome , fo that flaves in thofe places had fome protection ; but how ...
الصفحة 145
Until the day of fale they are kept on board in the harbour ; during which time the mafter , mate and doctor , ( for every fhip has a quack on board ) ufe every art to fet them off to the best advantage ; the grey hairs and beards of ...
Until the day of fale they are kept on board in the harbour ; during which time the mafter , mate and doctor , ( for every fhip has a quack on board ) ufe every art to fet them off to the best advantage ; the grey hairs and beards of ...
الصفحة 147
By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of Overseers , mafters are deprived of the labour of many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and fometimes loose them all together ; for being expofed to the heavy rains ...
By fuch impofitions , and harsh treatment of Overseers , mafters are deprived of the labour of many fine flaves ; and often too , when moft needed ; nay , and fometimes loose them all together ; for being expofed to the heavy rains ...
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