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 71
... planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on ...
... planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other ftock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on ...
الصفحة 79
... planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F ...
... planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F ...
الصفحة 80
... planting line afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition ...
... planting line afterwards . The business on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thousands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer should be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition ...
الصفحة 84
... planted , ) was found , he made an entry in the plantation book thus : " Longville , " a worthless fuperanuated flave , died by eating " dirt ; or Eaft , a diftempered worthless run away , " died of a dropfy . ' " 2 When the lift of ...
... planted , ) was found , he made an entry in the plantation book thus : " Longville , " a worthless fuperanuated flave , died by eating " dirt ; or Eaft , a diftempered worthless run away , " died of a dropfy . ' " 2 When the lift of ...
الصفحة 86
... planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts ...
... planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts ...
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