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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... Creole fifters living in the country , though fingle , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in this I must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a ...
... Creole fifters living in the country , though fingle , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ; in this I must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a ...
الصفحة 119
... Creole woman's love ! Ne'er fhall my heart forget the pleafing days , I gaily fpent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone ...
... Creole woman's love ! Ne'er fhall my heart forget the pleafing days , I gaily fpent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone ...
الصفحة 121
... Creole lady is fo foft and ignorant as Mifs Louisa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned be fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chafte and well bred women as any in the world ; I only point particularly at ...
... Creole lady is fo foft and ignorant as Mifs Louisa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned be fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chafte and well bred women as any in the world ; I only point particularly at ...
الصفحة 123
J. B. Moreton. Having thus far endeavoured to give you fome idea of Creole men and women , I fhall next treat of Mongrels ; a Mongrel is any thing that is en- gendered or begotten between different kinds , and resembles neither in ...
J. B. Moreton. Having thus far endeavoured to give you fome idea of Creole men and women , I fhall next treat of Mongrels ; a Mongrel is any thing that is en- gendered or begotten between different kinds , and resembles neither in ...
الصفحة 124
... Creole men ; not much in- ferior , but of courfe more negrofied ; and when they are not kept at a proper diftance and under due fubjection , are often very infolent and im- pudent . When thofe fpurious cubs , having no trades , fquander ...
... Creole men ; not much in- ferior , but of courfe more negrofied ; and when they are not kept at a proper diftance and under due fubjection , are often very infolent and im- pudent . When thofe fpurious cubs , having no trades , fquander ...
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