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 64
... wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards ...
... wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards ...
الصفحة 73
... woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an exe- cution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them ...
... woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an enormous fum of debts , gets out an exe- cution , brings the plantation , flaves , & c . to fale , and purchases them ...
الصفحة 83
... without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
... without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to feek shelter in the woods ; there there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 83.
الصفحة 114
... woods , where they had a plantation and about one hundred and forty flaves ; the old lady , well knowing from her own youthful experience how brittle female ware was , anxiously wished to dif- pofe of her daughters to advantage , and ...
... woods , where they had a plantation and about one hundred and forty flaves ; the old lady , well knowing from her own youthful experience how brittle female ware was , anxiously wished to dif- pofe of her daughters to advantage , and ...
الصفحة 115
... woods and waters ! ' ere it was quite light , one of the best wethers , two innocent lambs , one brawny barrow , two roafting pigs , two turkies , two geefe , four ducks , four capons , two maiden pullets ( as they call them ) , twenty ...
... woods and waters ! ' ere it was quite light , one of the best wethers , two innocent lambs , one brawny barrow , two roafting pigs , two turkies , two geefe , four ducks , four capons , two maiden pullets ( as they call them ) , twenty ...
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