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 80
The business on a plantation is no way intri , cate ; there are thousands of circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer Thould be active and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable ...
The business on a plantation is no way intri , cate ; there are thousands of circumstances which appearances only can teach ; an overseer Thould be active and industrious , of a steady , fober disposition , humane and charitable ...
الصفحة 81
fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , whereby he inight be capacle of conducting business without rigid severity . Heavens ! how few are fic for so weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West ...
fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , whereby he inight be capacle of conducting business without rigid severity . Heavens ! how few are fic for so weighty a charge ! Men , from their first entrance into the West ...
الصفحة 92
When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I observed to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modest ...
When a green - horn , as he is properly called , arrives , he enquires and delivers his letters of recommendation , and is got into business , as I observed to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modest ...
الصفحة 99
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in cime his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in cime his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
الصفحة 100
... and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fupercargoes who were intrusted with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant than men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the last at ...
... and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fupercargoes who were intrusted with considerable properties forgot themselves and lived more extravagant than men of fortune ; had their merchandize fold at vendue at the last at ...
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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
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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