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 80
... fober difpofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd and difcerning in all his remarks and tranfactions . amongst the flaves , as to their difpofitions , health , ftrength , food and raiment ; he fhould not only be a quack in phyfic ...
... fober difpofition , humane and charitable , fhrewd and difcerning in all his remarks and tranfactions . amongst the flaves , as to their difpofitions , health , ftrength , food and raiment ; he fhould not only be a quack in phyfic ...
الصفحة 86
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meaneft capacity , that the richest foil ...
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meaneft capacity , that the richest foil ...
الصفحة 89
... an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which should be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they keep black or mongrel ...
... an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which should be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they keep black or mongrel ...
الصفحة 95
... a diftemper very diftructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this infection , with roaft limes and brine . It is also neceffary to examine the sheep , goats , and swine every morning , -least they ...
... a diftemper very diftructive amongst them , they should be rubbed every morning , when they have this infection , with roaft limes and brine . It is also neceffary to examine the sheep , goats , and swine every morning , -least they ...
الصفحة 111
never go to church ; and though taught a fmattering of reading and writing , are obligated to negroe and mungrel wenches for the principal part of their education , amongst whom they fee nothing from their infancy but jilting ...
never go to church ; and though taught a fmattering of reading and writing , are obligated to negroe and mungrel wenches for the principal part of their education , amongst whom they fee nothing from their infancy but jilting ...
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