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 36
... trinkets and paltry baubles , to give a more sable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations ...
... trinkets and paltry baubles , to give a more sable hue to their footy complexions . Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations ...
الصفحة 42
Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making sugar and rum , & c , it would of itsel make a volume ; but as that is not my plan , I shall give you a sketch of each .
Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making sugar and rum , & c , it would of itsel make a volume ; but as that is not my plan , I shall give you a sketch of each .
الصفحة 44
... give them distempers of which many die . The small weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread ic thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultivaa tion , manure and ...
... give them distempers of which many die . The small weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread ic thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultivaa tion , manure and ...
الصفحة 50
... and when a subordinate person knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give instructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks him elf entitled to ...
... and when a subordinate person knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give instructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks him elf entitled to ...
الصفحة 60
I fall conclude this subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages against many , be assured , I will speak from experience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath ...
I fall conclude this subject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be severe in the following pages against many , be assured , I will speak from experience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the wreath ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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