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 79
Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
الصفحة 86
An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horfes , cattle , nor ftock of any kind ... I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ...
An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horfes , cattle , nor ftock of any kind ... I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ...
الصفحة 87
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
Seeing his plantation in such a ruined condition , he with much composure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities ...
الصفحة 88
It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak and fickly negroes in the fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of thofe miferable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag ...
It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak and fickly negroes in the fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of thofe miferable , and probably half - ftarved wretches lag ...
الصفحة 92
... letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appearance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , becaufe they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts .
... letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appearance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , becaufe they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts .
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