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 36
... women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his ...
... women . Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his ...
الصفحة 83
... women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them , two fhepherds , two fwine - herds , two fishermen , one fowler , and one attending the warren and pidgeons ; here is a lift of twenty - four ...
... women , two cooks , two women attending poul- try , and two ftout wenches affifting them , two fhepherds , two fwine - herds , two fishermen , one fowler , and one attending the warren and pidgeons ; here is a lift of twenty - four ...
الصفحة 89
... woman quires attendance , and may innere with the management , so as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; befides , a lovely amiable white partner would appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her ...
... woman quires attendance , and may innere with the management , so as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; befides , a lovely amiable white partner would appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her ...
الصفحة 95
... woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the greatest and most honour- able men in Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ...
... woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer- tainly think it is the greatest and most honour- able men in Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ...
الصفحة 98
... women take of beating and rubbing the clothes with ftones and ftumps of grafs to fave the expence of foap , wears them amazing faft , it will require yearly , if he has not brought a good stock of fhirts , neck- cloths , breeches ...
... women take of beating and rubbing the clothes with ftones and ftumps of grafs to fave the expence of foap , wears them amazing faft , it will require yearly , if he has not brought a good stock of fhirts , neck- cloths , breeches ...
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