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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... taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the conducting of all the business , and has a glorious opportunity of becoming a great man on ...
... taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the conducting of all the business , and has a glorious opportunity of becoming a great man on ...
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... taken notice of for having no appetite ; though fhe was preffed by the different gentlemen , fhe could eat nothing- at length a military gentleman who fat next to her , asked her if she was indifpofed , or what could it be that affected ...
... taken notice of for having no appetite ; though fhe was preffed by the different gentlemen , fhe could eat nothing- at length a military gentleman who fat next to her , asked her if she was indifpofed , or what could it be that affected ...
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... - keepers , negroes , & c . to be taken into keeping by gentlemen , who paid exorbitant hire for their ufe , and in the end to gain fuch afcen- dancy dancy over their keepers , as to have their free- 130 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... - keepers , negroes , & c . to be taken into keeping by gentlemen , who paid exorbitant hire for their ufe , and in the end to gain fuch afcen- dancy dancy over their keepers , as to have their free- 130 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 131
... , nor do not accuftom yourself to be haunting their huts by night , as many raw young men do , for it will be taken notice of , and may injure 1 injure your reputation . When a white man is IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 131.
... , nor do not accuftom yourself to be haunting their huts by night , as many raw young men do , for it will be taken notice of , and may injure 1 injure your reputation . When a white man is IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 131.
الصفحة 135
J. B. Moreton. x 7 didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his ancestors would not furrender themselves , but refolved to be free , or perish ; and held out fo long in the woods , that having killed several of ...
J. B. Moreton. x 7 didly told me , that when the island was taken by the Spaniards , his ancestors would not furrender themselves , but refolved to be free , or perish ; and held out fo long in the woods , that having killed several of ...
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