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 71
... commonly prepare for the attorney's coming by trashing the canes feven or eight yards deep along the intervals , and making other deceptions and preparations . An attorney fhould fee that the work went re- gularly on in rotation ; that ...
... commonly prepare for the attorney's coming by trashing the canes feven or eight yards deep along the intervals , and making other deceptions and preparations . An attorney fhould fee that the work went re- gularly on in rotation ; that ...
الصفحة 73
... the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and difcharge them at pleasure . F An เ An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 73.
... the attorney's proceedings ; for the attornies appoint both managers and overseers , and difcharge them at pleasure . F An เ An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 73.
الصفحة 74
J. B. Moreton. เ An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , fu- gar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An ...
J. B. Moreton. เ An attorney commonly fupplies himself and friends with horfes , cattle , fheep , poultry , fu- gar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plan- tations , and accounts for them as his confcience directs . An ...
الصفحة 82
... commonly fet the negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excuses to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he ftill ...
... commonly fet the negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excuses to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he ftill ...
الصفحة 83
... commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : " Notwithstanding " all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has " fuffered , I hope I will be able to make an hun- " dred hogsheads next crop . " Sneaking Caution , kept ...
... commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort : " Notwithstanding " all the calamities this ill - fated plantation has " fuffered , I hope I will be able to make an hun- " dred hogsheads next crop . " Sneaking Caution , kept ...
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