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 84
... estate . Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for ftrangers ...
... estate . Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves which were hired on the estate ; he always had excellent dinners and good accom- modations modations for ftrangers ...
الصفحة 86
... either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and far- caftical faying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the attorneyfhip of of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in 86 MANNERS AND , ...
... either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and far- caftical faying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the attorneyfhip of of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in 86 MANNERS AND , ...
الصفحة 87
J. B. Moreton. of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a lux- urious ftalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the ...
J. B. Moreton. of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a lux- urious ftalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the ...
الصفحة 90
... estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous cowskin hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour , And with his girl toy and play . Sometimes I just ...
... estate , And of a gang of negroes great ; I am a planter , quite compleat , A famous cowskin hero ! From fultry toil and labour , I'm retir'd every day ; Or I vifit my next neighbour , And with his girl toy and play . Sometimes I just ...
الصفحة 124
... and fuppofed to be worth 4 or 500l . fterling . As for Mongrel women , though the daughters of rich men , and though poffeffed of flaves and eftates 1 estates , they never think of marriage ; their 124 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... and fuppofed to be worth 4 or 500l . fterling . As for Mongrel women , though the daughters of rich men , and though poffeffed of flaves and eftates 1 estates , they never think of marriage ; their 124 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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