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 50
... wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs ...
... wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs ...
الصفحة 56
... wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the middle ...
... wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the middle ...
الصفحة 72
... mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an estate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an estate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent lazy MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 73
... wishes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an exe- cution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this ...
... wishes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an exe- cution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this ...
الصفحة 80
... wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ...
... wish to be an overfeer muft ferve his time ; dur- ing which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ...
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