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 48
... only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
... only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
الصفحة 51
... the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night , I was roufed at five in the morning .
... the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night , I was roufed at five in the morning .
الصفحة 69
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
الصفحة 77
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like goddeffes . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for ...
It is quite common for an attorney to keep a favourite black or mulatta girl on every estate , which the managers are obliged to pamper and indulge like goddeffes . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for ...
الصفحة 85
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
... he was remarkably polite and attentive in getting them fprightly bedfellows , for he had a feraglio of fine wenches at command , and was confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting .
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