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 77
Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty plantations , and had thiry or forty ... When an attorney visits a plantation , he commonly invites a few dissipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ...
Tom Coldweather , a gentleman in Spanish - Town , was attorney for about forty plantations , and had thiry or forty ... When an attorney visits a plantation , he commonly invites a few dissipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ...
الصفحة 78
fex ; the gentlemen sit in the piazza with their feet extended against the posts , to keep them from the cramp ; against bed time they are thus properly drilled , and hastened to the different cha : nbers ; their black husbands ...
fex ; the gentlemen sit in the piazza with their feet extended against the posts , to keep them from the cramp ; against bed time they are thus properly drilled , and hastened to the different cha : nbers ; their black husbands ...
الصفحة 86
It was a very shrewd and farcaítical saying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the attorneyship of 1 ... them up of his estate to a cabbage - 86 MANNERS AND , CUSTOMS.
It was a very shrewd and farcaítical saying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the attorneyship of 1 ... them up of his estate to a cabbage - 86 MANNERS AND , CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 87
them up of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
them up of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
الصفحة 89
And if men , whose bread depend on plantership , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleasing to gentlemen to have families on their estates ; a woman requires attendance , and may interfere with the ...
And if men , whose bread depend on plantership , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleasing to gentlemen to have families on their estates ; a woman requires attendance , and may interfere with the ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf