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 74
... Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Muf- covado fugar from your Clarendon - hall eftate , per the Eliza ...
... Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Muf- covado fugar from your Clarendon - hall eftate , per the Eliza ...
الصفحة 77
... Town , was attorney for about forty plan- tations , and had thirty or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau- chee that they waited chafte for his coming . The vanity of female flaves is raised to an ...
... Town , was attorney for about forty plan- tations , and had thirty or forty doxys of this kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau- chee that they waited chafte for his coming . The vanity of female flaves is raised to an ...
الصفحة 112
... town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy Pompion , cannot endure the fultry heat of the climate , nor the vulgar infipid converfation and ...
... town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy Pompion , cannot endure the fultry heat of the climate , nor the vulgar infipid converfation and ...
الصفحة 124
... Town , whofe father did little more for him than to pro- cure his manumiffion , and bind him to a mill- wright ; and this very man in the year 1784 , when I was in Jamaica , was attorney for thirty or forty plantations , and fuppofed to ...
... Town , whofe father did little more for him than to pro- cure his manumiffion , and bind him to a mill- wright ; and this very man in the year 1784 , when I was in Jamaica , was attorney for thirty or forty plantations , and fuppofed to ...
الصفحة 128
... towns , Mongrels are commonly taught to read and write , when their parents can afford it ; and every one gets more education in the heels than in the head , ( for , like the white Creoles , they are amazing fond of dancing ) ; when one ...
... towns , Mongrels are commonly taught to read and write , when their parents can afford it ; and every one gets more education in the heels than in the head , ( for , like the white Creoles , they are amazing fond of dancing ) ; when one ...
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