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 36
... thousand inhabitants of all denomina- tions , and is about thirteen miles from Kingflon ; the road is quite level , and the beft in the island . The king's houfe , in which the governor refides , and . W and where the affemblies are ...
... thousand inhabitants of all denomina- tions , and is about thirteen miles from Kingflon ; the road is quite level , and the beft in the island . The king's houfe , in which the governor refides , and . W and where the affemblies are ...
الصفحة 38
... thousand of Mufcovado fugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle ...
... thousand of Mufcovado fugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle ...
الصفحة 39
... thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch just and ...
... thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch just and ...
الصفحة 58
... thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in- ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the eftate ; and after he has exhaufted all ...
... thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in- ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the eftate ; and after he has exhaufted all ...
الصفحة 62
... thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the ma- nagers , and overfeers ...
... thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the ma- nagers , and overfeers ...
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