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 71
... kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and thrashed ; for mana- gers are knowing , and artful , and when they supinely pass away time ...
... kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and thrashed ; for mana- gers are knowing , and artful , and when they supinely pass away time ...
الصفحة 76
... kind present of Madeira , malmfy , porter , cheese , and hams ; they all came to hand in fine order ; the Madeira is ex- cellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is beft London particular ; you will lay me under an ad- ditional ...
... kind present of Madeira , malmfy , porter , cheese , and hams ; they all came to hand in fine order ; the Madeira is ex- cellent ! Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is beft London particular ; you will lay me under an ad- ditional ...
الصفحة 77
... kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau- chee that they waited chafte for his coming . The vanity of female flaves is raised to an unbounded degree to be chofen objects of their mafter , ( for they call an attorney their ...
... kind in keeping : I fuppofe each flattered the debau- chee that they waited chafte for his coming . The vanity of female flaves is raised to an unbounded degree to be chofen objects of their mafter , ( for they call an attorney their ...
الصفحة 86
... kind , to fell or barter for his own emolument ; nor fhould he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , leaft he fhould be tempted to act difhonestly . I knew many overfeers who accumulated very rapidly large properties ...
... kind , to fell or barter for his own emolument ; nor fhould he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , leaft he fhould be tempted to act difhonestly . I knew many overfeers who accumulated very rapidly large properties ...
الصفحة 94
... every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account account of the increase and decrease of each kind , 94 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the small stock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an exact account account of the increase and decrease of each kind , 94 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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