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 71
how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate ; whether it was loitered in riotous diffipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he be deceived by clean intervals ...
how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate ; whether it was loitered in riotous diffipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he be deceived by clean intervals ...
الصفحة 72
... Winde , & c . though originally indented servants , who could not boast of families or connections , who acted with strict integrity , and kept the cowskin herd of managers under them attentive early and late to their duty .
... Winde , & c . though originally indented servants , who could not boast of families or connections , who acted with strict integrity , and kept the cowskin herd of managers under them attentive early and late to their duty .
الصفحة 73
dischages the old manager , and appoints some indolent lazy fellow ( one of his own friends no doubt ) in his stead ; he gives a large salary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane ...
dischages the old manager , and appoints some indolent lazy fellow ( one of his own friends no doubt ) in his stead ; he gives a large salary , and the estate is neglected ; and when it is at a low ebb , the major part of the cane ...
الصفحة 75
Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the sugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has been owing to the canes being too ripe , and burning faiter than they could be taken off ...
Mr. Sneaking Caution , the manager , tells me , that the cause of the sugars being so dark , and not having fo good a grain as I would with , has been owing to the canes being too ripe , and burning faiter than they could be taken off ...
الصفحة 76
... not suppose have any souls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estare , I have ordered the manager to give them no allowance ; as fast as they die I shall supply their places by new negroes which will answer very well .
... not suppose have any souls , therefore , as they are an incumbrance to the estare , I have ordered the manager to give them no allowance ; as fast as they die I shall supply their places by new negroes which will answer very well .
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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