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 69
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
الصفحة 71
... and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how ...
... and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how ...
الصفحة 73
... and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild through the mountains ...
... and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane pieces converted into wilds of cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and feverity , forced to run wild through the mountains ...
الصفحة 74
An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , fugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , fugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
الصفحة 75
As to what you mention refpecting the crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogfheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the ...
As to what you mention refpecting the crops , you will pleafe to obferve , that when Mr. M'Donald was manager , and made three hundred hogfheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the ...
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