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 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 87
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addressed the overseer , whose name was Fungee , thus : “ Mr. Fungee , I find you are very industrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addressed the overseer , whose name was Fungee , thus : “ Mr. Fungee , I find you are very industrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
الصفحة 89
The life of an overseer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his friends , he is uneasy in his mind ...
The life of an overseer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge himself in every vicious practice , yet , while he fits an hour extraordinary after dinner with his friends , he is uneasy in his mind ...
الصفحة 91
... before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delusive dreams , so that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion ...
... before they leave their native and peaceful habitations , form strange ideas of the West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delusive dreams , so that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion ...
الصفحة 104
Frora all I have now said , you may be assured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and submissive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a ...
Frora all I have now said , you may be assured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and submissive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind close to yourself , you never will be a ...
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