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 121
Do not imagine from what I have said , that every Creole lady is so soft and ignorant as Miss Louisa and Miss Laura , I have mentioned be . fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chaste and well bred women ...
Do not imagine from what I have said , that every Creole lady is so soft and ignorant as Miss Louisa and Miss Laura , I have mentioned be . fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chaste and well bred women ...
الصفحة 126
I have often met many fine looking Mongrel girls , young and innocent to appearance , as deceptious as any Covent Garden country miss , Sume men are so weak and filly as to think that black girls will not suit their purposes ...
I have often met many fine looking Mongrel girls , young and innocent to appearance , as deceptious as any Covent Garden country miss , Sume men are so weak and filly as to think that black girls will not suit their purposes ...
الصفحة 161
... though you are blamed , get a new lock immediately put on ; or should you miss any articles which have been taken clandestinely out of the store , if you enquire privately you may for a small bribe have the thief detected .
... though you are blamed , get a new lock immediately put on ; or should you miss any articles which have been taken clandestinely out of the store , if you enquire privately you may for a small bribe have the thief detected .
الصفحة 178
What a pity that the West Indies are choked up with such poisonous weeds , -- who , “ Like pikes lank with hunger , who miss of their < ends , They bite their companions , and prey on their o friends . " ? > ...
What a pity that the West Indies are choked up with such poisonous weeds , -- who , “ Like pikes lank with hunger , who miss of their < ends , They bite their companions , and prey on their o friends . " ? > ...
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