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 95
... book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer ... book - keeper goes to breakfast IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 95.
... book the number of each kind that are with egg , least the stock - house woman deceives him ; and though you will think all this a very menial part of duty , which I cer ... book - keeper goes to breakfast IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 95.
الصفحة 96
... book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to fee the stock fed , and is kept conftantly bufy about one thing or another till paft eight ; he then gets his fupper , and goes to reft his wearied limbs on a couch of ...
... book - keeper to depart ; he returns about five or fix o'clock to fee the stock fed , and is kept conftantly bufy about one thing or another till paft eight ; he then gets his fupper , and goes to reft his wearied limbs on a couch of ...
الصفحة 97
... book - keeper must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to fee if any are broken or ftole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year ...
... book - keeper must go round the corn field and cane pieces , to fee if any are broken or ftole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year ...
الصفحة 98
... book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in a creditable house will coft about 801. fterling : and as conftant washing , and the deftructive method black women take of beating and rubbing the clothes with ...
... book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in a creditable house will coft about 801. fterling : and as conftant washing , and the deftructive method black women take of beating and rubbing the clothes with ...
الصفحة 130
... book - keepers , negroes , & c . to be taken into keeping by gentlemen , who paid exorbitant hire for their ufe , and in the end to gain fuch afcen- dancy dancy over their keepers , as to have their free- 130 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... book - keepers , negroes , & c . to be taken into keeping by gentlemen , who paid exorbitant hire for their ufe , and in the end to gain fuch afcen- dancy dancy over their keepers , as to have their free- 130 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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