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 Edition |
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الصفحة 44
If reasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes ; weed and mould them tenderly , and so on.
If reasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes ; weed and mould them tenderly , and so on.
الصفحة 64
... to succeed as well ; to get poffeffion of Naves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can ...
... to succeed as well ; to get poffeffion of Naves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I cannot conceive what the difference can ...
الصفحة 67
The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum , a foolish young ...
The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum , a foolish young ...
الصفحة 75
... industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made ihree hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated ...
... industrious young As to what you mention respecting the crops , you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made ihree hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated ...
الصفحة 77
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gentlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ...
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure fome of the finest young wenches for the gentlemen ; about fun fet they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf