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 71
... planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on ...
... planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on ...
الصفحة 79
... planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F ...
... planting line ; because a man of education , fpirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F ...
الصفحة 80
... planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thoufands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overfeer fhould be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition ...
... planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thoufands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an overfeer fhould be active and induftrious , of a steady , fober dif- pofition ...
الصفحة 84
... planted , ) was found , he made an entry in the plantation book thus : " Longville , " a worthlefs fuperanuated flave , died by eating " dirt ; or East , a diftempered worthless run away , " died of a dropfy . " When the lift of flaves ...
... planted , ) was found , he made an entry in the plantation book thus : " Longville , " a worthlefs fuperanuated flave , died by eating " dirt ; or East , a diftempered worthless run away , " died of a dropfy . " When the lift of flaves ...
الصفحة 86
... planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts ...
... planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts ...
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affift alfo almoſt attend attorney bafe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs cafe canes cattle Chriftian commonly confequence corn cowfkin hero Creole diſeaſes drink eftate eſtate expence faid falary falt fame feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fickly filk filly finging fkimmings flaves fmall fome fomething fometimes fond foon friends ftrength ftrong fubjects fuch fufficient fugar Fungee fuppofe fupport fweet gentlemen grafs Great-Britain himſelf hogfheads honeft horfes houfe houſe hundred iſland Jamaica juftice keep laft leaft leaſt liquor maffa mafter mauby merchants mifs moft Mongrel Montego Bay morning moſt muft Mulatto muſt neceffary negroes never night obferve occafions overfeers paffing paffions perfon plantation planter pleafing pleaſe poffible poor puncheon Quadroon reſpect ſay ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtock ſtores ſuch tajo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand uſe Weft wenches Weſt Indies whilft wine women young yourſelf