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 |
من داخل الكتاب
الصفحة 79
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction ob- ferved among them as in the West India ...
... corn , fugar , rum , coffee , and cho- colate ; fo that as to eating and drinking , over- feers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch diftinction ob- ferved among them as in the West India ...
الصفحة 84
... corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the fkeleton of a flave , who had been done over " in this manner , ( for breaking a cane , the root of which he himself probably planted , ) was found ...
... corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the fkeleton of a flave , who had been done over " in this manner , ( for breaking a cane , the root of which he himself probably planted , ) was found ...
الصفحة 86
... corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be ... corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or corn only , either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and ...
... corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be ... corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or corn only , either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and ...
الصفحة 87
... corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a lux- urious ftalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was freed from weeds and carefully moulded , and the canes neglected . Seeing his plantation in fuch a ...
... corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a lux- urious ftalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was freed from weeds and carefully moulded , and the canes neglected . Seeing his plantation in fuch a ...
الصفحة 89
... corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means they feverally practice to deceive the attornies or pro- prietors ; fuch commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or ...
... corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means they feverally practice to deceive the attornies or pro- prietors ; fuch commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf