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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... and burning faster than they could be taken off : the last twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogheads will ...
... and burning faster than they could be taken off : the last twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogheads will ...
الصفحة 76
Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant ...
Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant ...
الصفحة 83
Sneaking Caution , kept fome of the best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washerwomen , two cooks , two women attending poultry , and two ftout ...
Sneaking Caution , kept fome of the best flaves for domeftics , to wit , three house - maids , three fempftreffes , and two ftout wenches their apprentices , two washerwomen , two cooks , two women attending poultry , and two ftout ...
الصفحة 84
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best flaves in purfuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop ...
there was commonly fourteen or fixteen run away , and four or five of the very best flaves in purfuit of them . He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every flave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop ...
الصفحة 85
Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one of the best parishes in the iliand , he was preferred to the ...
Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of one of the best parishes in the iliand , he was preferred to the ...
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