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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... negroes which will anfwer very well . I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds fterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** of London , which please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance ...
... negroes which will anfwer very well . I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds fterling , at ninety days fight , in favour of Meffrs . ****** of London , which please to ac- cept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance ...
الصفحة 81
... negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " — The first and most effential qualifications fuch think neceffary , is to infult , offend ...
... negroes , they become proud , infolent , and haughty ; it is a very true adage- " Set a beg- gar on horseback , and he'll ride to the devil . " — The first and most effential qualifications fuch think neceffary , is to infult , offend ...
الصفحة 82
... negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he still exclaimed ...
... negroes to work at wrong feafons ; to dig cane holes in wet weather , and to plant in drought ; and yet he always found excufes to palliate his bad conduct ; when the plants did not thrive , or were burning , he still exclaimed ...
الصفحة 87
... negroes from the eftate : he was affected to be deprived of thofe valuable fnacks , and to find his reputation , like a foot- ball , kicked about . It It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 87.
... negroes from the eftate : he was affected to be deprived of thofe valuable fnacks , and to find his reputation , like a foot- ball , kicked about . It It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 87.
الصفحة 88
J. B. Moreton. It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak and fickly negroes in the fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of those mife- rable , and probably half ...
J. B. Moreton. It is very customary for overfeers to mix the weak and fickly negroes in the fame gang with the ftout and healthy , and to make them keep up their rows alike ; and when any of those mife- rable , and probably half ...
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