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 77
The vanity of female Naves is raised to an unbounded degree to be chofen objects of their master , ( for they call an attorney their master ) on which ac . count they are often intolerable insolent to subor . dinate white men : woe ...
The vanity of female Naves is raised to an unbounded degree to be chofen objects of their master , ( for they call an attorney their master ) on which ac . count they are often intolerable insolent to subor . dinate white men : woe ...
الصفحة 80
... his remarks and transactions amongst the Naves , as to their dispositions , health , strength , food and raiment ; he should not only be a quack in physic , but should have fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation ,.
... his remarks and transactions amongst the Naves , as to their dispositions , health , strength , food and raiment ; he should not only be a quack in physic , but should have fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation ,.
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 ...
الصفحة 82
which had 270 Naves upon it ; and though it commonly produced 300 hogsheads of sugar when superintended by a former overseer , Sneaking Caution could never make it exceed 130 hogtheads yearly ; yet he was supported by the attorney ...
which had 270 Naves upon it ; and though it commonly produced 300 hogsheads of sugar when superintended by a former overseer , Sneaking Caution could never make it exceed 130 hogtheads yearly ; yet he was supported by the attorney ...
الصفحة 83
Sneaking Caution , kept some of the best Naves for domestics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempstresses , and two Itout wenches their apprentices , two washerwomen , two cooks , two yomen attending poultry , and two stout ...
Sneaking Caution , kept some of the best Naves for domestics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempstresses , and two Itout wenches their apprentices , two washerwomen , two cooks , two yomen attending poultry , and two stout ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt 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 ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf