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 74
... hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the fhipments of all the produce , they are courted by the merchants and mafters of veffels to freight their fhips and give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow ...
... hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the fhipments of all the produce , they are courted by the merchants and mafters of veffels to freight their fhips and give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow ...
الصفحة 75
... hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we ...
... hundred hogsheads yearly , he injured the flaves and cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we ...
الصفحة 84
... hundred and feventy , he hardly allowed fifty healthy and ftout , and all to fcreen his bad management . He fel- dom mustered more than feventy in the field , fo that he put the eftate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing ...
... hundred and feventy , he hardly allowed fifty healthy and ftout , and all to fcreen his bad management . He fel- dom mustered more than feventy in the field , fo that he put the eftate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing ...
الصفحة 114
... hundred and forty flaves ; the old lady , well knowing from her own youthful experience how brittle female ware was , anxiously wished to dif- pofe of her daughters to advantage , and was re- markably attentive to every gentleman who ...
... hundred and forty flaves ; the old lady , well knowing from her own youthful experience how brittle female ware was , anxiously wished to dif- pofe of her daughters to advantage , and was re- markably attentive to every gentleman who ...
الصفحة 136
... hundred thousand flaves are yearly exported from Africa ; several of these poor wretches , when they get fickly on the Guinea coaft , are thrown over - board alive to fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together ...
... hundred thousand flaves are yearly exported from Africa ; several of these poor wretches , when they get fickly on the Guinea coaft , are thrown over - board alive to fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together ...
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