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 21
... vifits each weekly , and keeps a fmall book in the fick houfe , in which he enters the different receipts for the fick negroes , which the manager or overfeer reads to fome old black man or woman who attends them .
... vifits each weekly , and keeps a fmall book in the fick houfe , in which he enters the different receipts for the fick negroes , which the manager or overfeer reads to fome old black man or woman who attends them .
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 26
... when a perfon is confined to his bed , fome careful , difcreet , black woman , fhould be appointed to at tend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
... when a perfon is confined to his bed , fome careful , difcreet , black woman , fhould be appointed to at tend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
الصفحة 27
A confumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obftructs the circulation of the veffels , fome impediment in the lungs , or from long continued coughs , pleurifies , intemperance , ill - cured venerials , or hard ftudy ...
A confumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obftructs the circulation of the veffels , fome impediment in the lungs , or from long continued coughs , pleurifies , intemperance , ill - cured venerials , or hard ftudy ...
الصفحة 28
... be long and lafting , and never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
... be long and lafting , and never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
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