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 48
... obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first ...
... obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first ...
الصفحة 51
... 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 . A respite * A refpite very fhort to fleep or to wake IN THE WEST INDIA ...
... 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 . A respite * A refpite very fhort to fleep or to wake IN THE WEST INDIA ...
الصفحة 69
... obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to fcreen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have ...
... obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to fcreen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have ...
الصفحة 77
... obliged to pamper and indulge like goddeffes . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty plan- tations , and had thirty or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau ...
... obliged to pamper and indulge like goddeffes . Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty plan- tations , and had thirty or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau ...
الصفحة 85
... obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one ...
... obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one ...
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