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 possession 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 possession 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 69
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of naves and catcle , & c . & c .
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of naves and catcle , & c . & c .
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 75
... you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the Naves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation so that they never will retrieve ...
... you will please to observe , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the Naves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation so that they never will retrieve ...
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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