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 84
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best Naves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop ...
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best Naves in pursuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop ...
الصفحة 87
Suppose you would order the Naves to set in and hoe . What fay you , Mr. Fungee ? " Poor Fungee was so confounded that he was incapable to reply ; conscious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ...
Suppose you would order the Naves to set in and hoe . What fay you , Mr. Fungee ? " Poor Fungee was so confounded that he was incapable to reply ; conscious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ...
الصفحة 88
... and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of Naves entertain the same notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their interest to preserve ...
... and say that the West Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many masters of Naves entertain the same notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their interest to preserve ...
الصفحة 92
with their master's daughters , and thereby get poffeffion of Naves and cultivated plantations ; and the offspring of those ( scum of prisons ) now flourish . Of late , the British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the ...
with their master's daughters , and thereby get poffeffion of Naves and cultivated plantations ; and the offspring of those ( scum of prisons ) now flourish . Of late , the British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the ...
الصفحة 96
When the bell is rung to order the Naves out to work , the cowskin hero drinks the King , as a Gignal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one ...
When the bell is rung to order the Naves out to work , the cowskin hero drinks the King , as a Gignal for the book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to see the stock fed , and is kept constantly busy about one ...
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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