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 105
... are affuming and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to negroe huts and mulatto balls ; though a Creole was languishing on his death bed , I believe the found of the gumbay or ...
... are affuming and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to negroe huts and mulatto balls ; though a Creole was languishing on his death bed , I believe the found of the gumbay or ...
الصفحة 118
oufly , for captain M'Kill - all ( which was the officer's name ) being pert and raw , proud and ignorant , like many other military puppies , to fhew his courage , challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning ...
oufly , for captain M'Kill - all ( which was the officer's name ) being pert and raw , proud and ignorant , like many other military puppies , to fhew his courage , challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning ...
الصفحة 121
Do not imagine from what I have faid , that every Creole lady is so soft and ignorant as Miss Louifa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned before , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chaste and well bred women as ...
Do not imagine from what I have faid , that every Creole lady is so soft and ignorant as Miss Louifa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned before , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chaste and well bred women as ...
الصفحة 123
All Mongrels , male and female , have a vast fhare of pride and vanity , bafenefs and ingratitude in their compofitions : their delicacy and ignorance being fuch , that they defpife and degrade their parents and relations inclining to ...
All Mongrels , male and female , have a vast fhare of pride and vanity , bafenefs and ingratitude in their compofitions : their delicacy and ignorance being fuch , that they defpife and degrade their parents and relations inclining to ...
الصفحة 124
... for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their livelihoods industriously and honeftly .
... for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their livelihoods industriously and honeftly .
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