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 71
... or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employment , whole merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short , any man who presumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the ...
... or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employment , whole merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short , any man who presumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the ...
الصفحة 79
... and the Overseer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward INands Overseer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occasion to speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers .
... and the Overseer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward INands Overseer's or NegroDrivers ; however , when I have occasion to speak of either in future , I shall call them overseers and book - keepers .
الصفحة 80
to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life ...
to him to expose his conftitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life ...
الصفحة 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 82
Sneaking Caution was a poor , stupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous disposition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted ...
Sneaking Caution was a poor , stupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous disposition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf