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 77
... attorney their master ) on which ac- count they are often intolerable infolent to fubor- dinate white men : woe betide a poor overfeer if he affronts one of them ! When an attorney vifits a plantation , he com- mónly invites a few ...
... attorney their master ) on which ac- count they are often intolerable infolent to fubor- dinate white men : woe betide a poor overfeer if he affronts one of them ! When an attorney vifits a plantation , he com- mónly invites a few ...
الصفحة 80
... attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exists , that the whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous person , and it will be ...
... attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exists , that the whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous person , and it will be ...
الصفحة 82
... attorney , and made a confiderable property in faves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , stupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he ...
... attorney , and made a confiderable property in faves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , stupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he ...
الصفحة 83
... attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : " Notwithstanding " all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has " fuffered , I hope I will be able to make ...
... attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : " Notwithstanding " all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has " fuffered , I hope I will be able to make ...
الصفحة 89
... attorney . re- And if men , whofe bread depend on planter- ship , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleafing to gentlemen to have families on their eftates ; a woman quires attendance , and may ...
... attorney . re- And if men , whofe bread depend on planter- ship , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleafing to gentlemen to have families on their eftates ; a woman quires attendance , and may ...
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