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 59
... foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different ...
... foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different ...
الصفحة 81
... foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very ...
... foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a few new negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very ...
الصفحة 85
... foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted and ruined his reputation ever ...
... foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted and ruined his reputation ever ...
الصفحة 88
... foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and conversation of ...
... foon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domeftics ; thus , custom , the defpotic ruler of reafon , is dead to the voice of humanity , and fmothers benevolence and charity . The company and conversation of ...
الصفحة 95
... foon as out of the fhell , is fer- viceable ; alfo , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and ...
... foon as out of the fhell , is fer- viceable ; alfo , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and ...
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