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 83
... poor or hungry , or whether they worked cheerfully , or loitered their time , fo that he fre- quently flogged them without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to seek fhelter in ...
... poor or hungry , or whether they worked cheerfully , or loitered their time , fo that he fre- quently flogged them without faults , to fhew his authority ; by which cruel and unmerciful treat- ment , he forced many to seek fhelter in ...
الصفحة 85
... poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the Weft Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous · fa ...
... poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to say that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the Weft Indies . An An overseer should be allowed a generous · fa ...
الصفحة 86
... poor canes and fpindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or corn only , either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and far- caftical faying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the ...
... poor canes and fpindly corn grow at once , was allotted to canes or corn only , either might flourish luxuriously . It was a very fhrewd and far- caftical faying of a gentleman who had been many years in England , and had left the ...
الصفحة 87
... Poor Fungee was fo confounded that he was incapable to reply ; confcious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowfkin hero fallen in two days afterwards ...
... Poor Fungee was fo confounded that he was incapable to reply ; confcious guilt glowed in his face , and indicated the agitations of his avaricious heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowfkin hero fallen in two days afterwards ...
الصفحة 91
... poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly transports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into marriage G 2 with with their master's ...
... poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly transports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into marriage G 2 with with their master's ...
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