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 58
... keep it . I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable ...
... keep it . I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable ...
الصفحة 62
... keep a conftant look out , the gates are always locked , fo that no ftranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on ...
... keep a conftant look out , the gates are always locked , fo that no ftranger or other person if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on ...
الصفحة 65
... keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers . Ever fince the murdering of God Almighty , they are remarkably fond of gold and filver , and very expert at mixing bafe metals ...
... keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers . Ever fince the murdering of God Almighty , they are remarkably fond of gold and filver , and very expert at mixing bafe metals ...
الصفحة 74
... keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the fhipments of all the produce , they are courted by the merchants and mafters ...
... keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent . advance . As attornies have the fhipments of all the produce , they are courted by the merchants and mafters ...
الصفحة 76
... an ad- ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant , TOM COLDWEATHER , It It is quite common for an attorney to keep a 76 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... an ad- ditional obligation to order that gentleman to fend me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble fervant , TOM COLDWEATHER , It It is quite common for an attorney to keep a 76 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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