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 56
The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the fpirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried ...
The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the fpirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried ...
الصفحة 58
c .; fo that in my humble opinion , a fugar plantation , should be no defirable object for a man to feek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the ...
c .; fo that in my humble opinion , a fugar plantation , should be no defirable object for a man to feek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the ...
الصفحة 70
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
الصفحة 71
how he paffed the time , and cultivated the eftate ; whether it was loitered in riotous diffipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he be deceived by clean intervals ...
how he paffed the time , and cultivated the eftate ; whether it was loitered in riotous diffipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he be deceived by clean intervals ...
الصفحة 78
... luxuriously and voluptuoufly spend their few days and nights in diffipations dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould 1 > I should have observed to you before ...
... luxuriously and voluptuoufly spend their few days and nights in diffipations dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould 1 > I should have observed to you before ...
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affected alfo appear attend attorney become better blood book-keepers called canes carry cattle cent commonly confidered corn Creole cure dear drink eftate eight fame feet feveral fhall fhould field five flaves fmall follow fome fometimes fond foon four frequently friends fuch fugar gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf holes houſe human hundred ignorant Indies Jamaica keep kind known ladies leaft liquor live mafter manager manner means merchants mind Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature neceffary negroes never night obferve obliged once overfeers pain particularly perfon plantation planter planting poffible poor taken temper themſelves thing thofe thoſe thouſand till tion town turn wenches whole wine women woods young yourſelf