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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... . If feafonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from 44 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... . If feafonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from 44 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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... young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unlefs it be that the Scotch are more enterprifing , partial and friendly to ...
... young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can be owing to , unlefs it be that the Scotch are more enterprifing , partial and friendly to ...
الصفحة 67
... young man , Monfieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , mafter Allick . But O ! thofe vile Chriftians henceforth I'll fhun ; I was early , and late ...
... young man , Monfieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who feem'd very fick , And her hopeful fweet offspring , mafter Allick . But O ! thofe vile Chriftians henceforth I'll fhun ; I was early , and late ...
الصفحة 75
... young man . As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogfheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and ...
... young man . As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogfheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and ...
الصفحة 77
... young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wafh ...
... young wenches for the gen- tlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most mana- gers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wafh ...
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