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 131
... she can afford it will affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen in a public place by day with ...
... she can afford it will affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen in a public place by day with ...
الصفحة 151
... my heart - strings were rent in twain , And my breast did with jealousy burn ; I bid the dear nymph to explain What she gave to Neptune in town . " Dear " Dear Cufty , " the gently replies , " IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 151.
... my heart - strings were rent in twain , And my breast did with jealousy burn ; I bid the dear nymph to explain What she gave to Neptune in town . " Dear " Dear Cufty , " the gently replies , " IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 151.
الصفحة 152
... She faid , " I did give him a- [ The reft of the Paftoral was torn . ] The women , when pregnant , work in the fields till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate , is ferviceable to child - bearing women ) after they ...
... She faid , " I did give him a- [ The reft of the Paftoral was torn . ] The women , when pregnant , work in the fields till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate , is ferviceable to child - bearing women ) after they ...
الصفحة 155
... she was to be restored to her freedom ; and , if she had a husband , him also . Notwithstanding all their hardships , they are fond of plays and merriment ; and if not pre- vented by whites , according to a law of the ifland , they will ...
... she was to be restored to her freedom ; and , if she had a husband , him also . Notwithstanding all their hardships , they are fond of plays and merriment ; and if not pre- vented by whites , according to a law of the ifland , they will ...
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