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 104
... turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , fcorning the bafe degrees By which he did afcend . " Those who are born in the country are called Creoles , the ...
... turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , fcorning the bafe degrees By which he did afcend . " Those who are born in the country are called Creoles , the ...
الصفحة 124
... turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn ...
... turn out the most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn ...
الصفحة 152
... turn out to cultivate the ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on fheep - fkins in the field . There is ...
... turn out to cultivate the ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on fheep - fkins in the field . There is ...
الصفحة 154
... turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obisfha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almoft ...
... turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obisfha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almoft ...
الصفحة 158
... turn , and turn and wind all night . When wanton Jiggo , with " fide - long looks of love , " To mutual rapture do each other move ; With kind compliance , and with warm defire , In melting pairs , they privately retire To lonely fhades ...
... turn , and turn and wind all night . When wanton Jiggo , with " fide - long looks of love , " To mutual rapture do each other move ; With kind compliance , and with warm defire , In melting pairs , they privately retire To lonely fhades ...
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