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 48
... manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five ...
... manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green . In the boiling - house there are four or five ...
الصفحة 50
... hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 55
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
الصفحة 56
... managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the middle part of the runnings is beft . Rum improves vaftly in ...
... managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the middle part of the runnings is beft . Rum improves vaftly in ...
الصفحة 57
... manager's house , stores , & c . & c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred and forty flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place ...
... manager's house , stores , & c . & c . will cost about 8,000l .; one hundred and forty flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place ...
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