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
... but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own einployment , whose merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short , any man who presumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the painful coils ...
... but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own einployment , whose merits and long painful servitude deserved it ; in short , any man who presumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the painful coils ...
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
1 . to him to expose his constitution 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 ...
1 . to him to expose his constitution 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 ...
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 meric 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 meric in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt 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 ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf