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 56
J. B. Moreton. are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in fo interefting a branch . The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ; the ...
J. B. Moreton. are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in fo interefting a branch . The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ; the ...
الصفحة 59
... negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , shades , and penns , fuppofe to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation ...
... negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , shades , and penns , fuppofe to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not half the price of a fugar plantation ...
الصفحة 62
... negroes , keep a conftant look out , the gates are always locked , fo that no ftranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met ...
... negroes , keep a conftant look out , the gates are always locked , fo that no ftranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met ...
الصفحة 63
... negroes , and strayed horses . There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not ...
... negroes , and strayed horses . There are about seventy attornies at law , and twenty barristers in the island ; amongst the latter , the oratorial Mr. Lewis and facetious Mr. Brown have diftinguished themfelves ; tho ' Mr. Brown is not ...
الصفحة 74
... negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every ...
... negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every ...
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