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 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 71
An attorney should see that the work went regularly on in rotation ; that the ground was holed in proper time and season , and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole estate , Naves , cattle , mules , and ...
An attorney should see that the work went regularly on in rotation ; that the ground was holed in proper time and season , and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole estate , Naves , cattle , mules , and ...
الصفحة 73
... the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the Naves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late prosperous and delightful plantation ...
... the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the Naves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late prosperous and delightful plantation ...
الصفحة 79
Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 sterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and Naves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
Overseers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 sterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and Naves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
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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