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 79
... Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers and book - keepers . Overfeers all over ...
... Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occafion to fpeak of either in future , I fhall call them overfeers and book - keepers . Overfeers all over ...
الصفحة 86
J. B. Moreton. An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horfes , cattle ... overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ...
J. B. Moreton. An overfeer should be allowed a generous falary ; nor should he be permitted to pamper horfes , cattle ... overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ...
الصفحة 87
... overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities , and will make a fine crop of corn to pamper your ... overfeers to mix the weak IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 87.
... overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftrious ; you certainly have uncommon abilities , and will make a fine crop of corn to pamper your ... overfeers to mix the weak IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 87.
الصفحة 88
... overfeers deferve not the name of men ; they are as bad as hangmen ; barbarous as hottentots , with favage fouls . Overfeers endeavour to perfuade that it must be fo , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not ...
... overfeers deferve not the name of men ; they are as bad as hangmen ; barbarous as hottentots , with favage fouls . Overfeers endeavour to perfuade that it must be fo , and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not ...
الصفحة 92
... overfeers are glad to get green - horns , becaufe they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts . Here I must obferve , that letters of recommendation , if they are 7 are to good men , may be of ...
... overfeers are glad to get green - horns , becaufe they can impofe hardships on them , and make them fubferviant to their interefts . Here I must obferve , that letters of recommendation , if they are 7 are to good men , may be of ...
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