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 82
... poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every bafe means to ...
... poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ; when he perceived merit in any of his book - keepers ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every bafe means to ...
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 feek shelter 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 feek shelter in ...
الصفحة 85
... poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies . An An overfeer should be allowed a generous fa ...
... poor Little Confe- quence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over the West Indies . An An overfeer 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 ...
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