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 52
... piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor ...
... piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheer- fully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor ...
الصفحة 65
... piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them : " For every one , from the leaft even unto the " greateft , is given to covetoufnefs ; from the prophet even unto ...
... piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them : " For every one , from the leaft even unto the " greateft , is given to covetoufnefs ; from the prophet even unto ...
الصفحة 71
... pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and thrashed ; for mana- gers are knowing , and artful , and when they supinely pass away time , they commonly prepare for the attorney's coming by ...
... pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and thrashed ; for mana- gers are knowing , and artful , and when they supinely pass away time , they commonly prepare for the attorney's coming by ...
الصفحة 73
... pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to ...
... pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to ...
الصفحة 77
... pieces . In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like ...
... pieces . In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like ...
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