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 131
... attend you when fick , and when she can afford it will affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen ...
... attend you when fick , and when she can afford it will affift you with any thing in her power , for many of them are good- natured : and this I hope you will obferve ; though you make one of them your companion by night , do not be feen ...
الصفحة 132
... attended men through the means of women ; and we fee in- ftances daily of the base diffimulating stratagems of the fex , by the numbers who are brought to the gallows through their means . Solomon fays mott beautifully , -- " Give not ...
... attended men through the means of women ; and we fee in- ftances daily of the base diffimulating stratagems of the fex , by the numbers who are brought to the gallows through their means . Solomon fays mott beautifully , -- " Give not ...
الصفحة 145
... well . On the day of fale they are expofed on board as they came into the world , or at the merchants store to whom they are configned : the planters , overfeers , overfeers & c . attend , and pick and chufe IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 145.
... well . On the day of fale they are expofed on board as they came into the world , or at the merchants store to whom they are configned : the planters , overfeers , overfeers & c . attend , and pick and chufe IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 145.
الصفحة 146
J. B. Moreton. overfeers & c . attend , and pick and chufe them in like manner as if fheep or oxen ; and grabble , grafp and joftle each other to get the beft . The terms of fale are commonly fix months cre- dit ; a prime flave will cost ...
J. B. Moreton. overfeers & c . attend , and pick and chufe them in like manner as if fheep or oxen ; and grabble , grafp and joftle each other to get the beft . The terms of fale are commonly fix months cre- dit ; a prime flave will cost ...
الصفحة 147
... attends to call the lift , Here I must obferve , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his book- keepers with power to order a negroe more than one or two lashes in the courfe of a day . At night the negroes are obliged to ...
... attends to call the lift , Here I must obferve , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his book- keepers with power to order a negroe more than one or two lashes in the courfe of a day . At night the negroes are obliged to ...
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