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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... hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand fhipping ; and as the tide fcarce ebbs or flows , ships at all times float , load and unload , alongfide the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre ...
... hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand fhipping ; and as the tide fcarce ebbs or flows , ships at all times float , load and unload , alongfide the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre ...
الصفحة 36
... hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of ... hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingston ...
... hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of ... hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingston ...
الصفحة 37
... hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and ... hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houfes ; the harbour is large ...
... hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and ... hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houfes ; the harbour is large ...
الصفحة 38
... hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when ...
... hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when ...
الصفحة 39
... hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours . Lord have mercy on their fouls ! These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are ...
... hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours . Lord have mercy on their fouls ! These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are ...
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