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 55
... attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowskin 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 cowskin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
الصفحة 56
J. B. Moreton. are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in fo interefting a branch . The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the fpirits may evaporate ; the ...
J. B. Moreton. are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in fo interefting a branch . The heads of the ftills fhould be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the fpirits may evaporate ; the ...
الصفحة 58
... plantations , or even the overfeers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emoluments arifing therefrom 58 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... plantations , or even the overfeers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emoluments arifing therefrom 58 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 61
... overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
... overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping , pedling merchants , in furnishing the troops and ...
الصفحة 71
... overfeers in his own employment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four ...
... overfeers in his own employment , whose merits and long painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , should have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four ...
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