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 39
... thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and ...
... thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and ...
الصفحة 58
... thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted all ...
... thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted all ...
الصفحة 62
... thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the ma- nagers , and overfeers ...
... thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the ma- nagers , and overfeers ...
الصفحة 63
... thousand pounds yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and ftrayed ...
... thousand pounds yearly . It is fomething furprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and ftrayed ...
الصفحة 76
... thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** , of London , which please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I fhall be clear of debt ...
... thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** , of London , which please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three years I fhall be clear of debt ...
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