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 53
... must be a greater quantity of fkimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of skimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will answer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of fkimmings , four per cent ...
... must be a greater quantity of fkimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , feventy per cent . of skimmings , and thirty per cent . of water will answer ; but if there are molaffes , fifty per cent . of fkimmings , four per cent ...
الصفحة 60
... must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal 1 liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not 60 ...
... must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal 1 liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not 60 ...
الصفحة 80
... must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exists ...
... must not find fault with him ; for fhould a vindictive fpirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are juft , he may depend , as fure as he exists ...
الصفحة 86
... must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest ...
... must not omit to mention a very wrong prac- tice of overfeers , moft injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest ...
الصفحة 88
... must be so , and fay that the Weft Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many mafters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to ...
... must be so , and fay that the Weft Indies would be of no use if severity was not exerted ; and many mafters of flaves entertain the fame notion , and have as little pity and regard for them as for their oxen , as it is their intereft to ...
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