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 49
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
الصفحة 53
... must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of fkimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will anfwer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of fkimmings , four per cent ...
... must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of fkimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will anfwer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of fkimmings , four per cent ...
الصفحة 80
... must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exifts ...
... must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exifts ...
الصفحة 86
... must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest ...
... must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest ...
الصفحة 88
... must be so , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if feverity was not exerted ; and many masters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to ...
... must be so , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if feverity was not exerted ; and many masters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to ...
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