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 102
... leaft they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the affembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the prosperity of the peo- ple in general , and learn by speaking to himself in private , to ...
... leaft they pay dear for it . When a man gets into the affembly , or be- comes one of the council , he should study the laws of the island , and the prosperity of the peo- ple in general , and learn by speaking to himself in private , to ...
الصفحة 129
... leaft you be premature in your amours ; as many infatuated men , of pimping jealous difpofitions , go to those balls merely to watch their girls , and to keep them chafte till they return . Be cau- tious and fecret in your intrigues , leaft ...
... leaft you be premature in your amours ; as many infatuated men , of pimping jealous difpofitions , go to those balls merely to watch their girls , and to keep them chafte till they return . Be cau- tious and fecret in your intrigues , leaft ...
الصفحة 137
... leaft fuggeftion of their partaking of the brute creation . How many white deformed , ftupid , ignorant , indolent , lazy , idle favages , ba- boons and fatyrs in human form , are there in Great Britain and Ireland ? who , in my humble ...
... leaft fuggeftion of their partaking of the brute creation . How many white deformed , ftupid , ignorant , indolent , lazy , idle favages , ba- boons and fatyrs in human form , are there in Great Britain and Ireland ? who , in my humble ...
الصفحة 145
... leaft any report fhould circulate of the cargo's being fickly , to hurt the fale , the dead bodies are concealed in the hold until night , and given to the fharks , which devour them in a trice : when there are many Guinea fhips in the ...
... leaft any report fhould circulate of the cargo's being fickly , to hurt the fale , the dead bodies are concealed in the hold until night , and given to the fharks , which devour them in a trice : when there are many Guinea fhips in the ...
الصفحة 161
... leaft the negroes get them , and plunder the stores at night : poor creatures , they are fo ftinted that it is almoft impoffible to avoid thieving ; fhould you loofe or mislay a key , though you are blamed , get a new lock immediately ...
... leaft the negroes get them , and plunder the stores at night : poor creatures , they are fo ftinted that it is almoft impoffible to avoid thieving ; fhould you loofe or mislay a key , though you are blamed , get a new lock immediately ...
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