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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الصفحة 164
... West Indies : even the sugar cane grows fpontaneous in many parts ; confe- quently , if blacks were humanized , inftructed in arts and fciences , hufbandry and commerce , and made fenfible that the fhedding of their blood was at laft ...
... West Indies : even the sugar cane grows fpontaneous in many parts ; confe- quently , if blacks were humanized , inftructed in arts and fciences , hufbandry and commerce , and made fenfible that the fhedding of their blood was at laft ...
الصفحة 165
... Indies would de- cline , and flavery alfo , till totally , in process of time , emancipated . This is very evident ; for in China , where sugar is made by free Indians , it is fold cheaper than that made in the West Indies by flaves ...
... Indies would de- cline , and flavery alfo , till totally , in process of time , emancipated . This is very evident ; for in China , where sugar is made by free Indians , it is fold cheaper than that made in the West Indies by flaves ...
الصفحة 167
... almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking , and fmoaking fegars , is a baneful and obnoxious practice all over the Weft- West - Indies . It has been remarked , that IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 167.
... almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking , and fmoaking fegars , is a baneful and obnoxious practice all over the Weft- West - Indies . It has been remarked , that IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 167.
الصفحة 168
J. B. Moreton. West - Indies . It has been remarked , that if a man makes grog his favourite drink , and mixes it ever fo weak at the beginning , he will make it ftronger and ftronger by degrees , ' till in time his throat becomes so ...
J. B. Moreton. West - Indies . It has been remarked , that if a man makes grog his favourite drink , and mixes it ever fo weak at the beginning , he will make it ftronger and ftronger by degrees , ' till in time his throat becomes so ...
الصفحة 174
... West - Indies , gambling is prac- ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in every Tavern you'll find card , billiard , backgammon , and various other other tables and ways and means of winning and loofing ...
... West - Indies , gambling is prac- ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in every Tavern you'll find card , billiard , backgammon , and various other other tables and ways and means of winning and loofing ...
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