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 69
J. B. Moreton. Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content , ' Till I mufter as much as I gambled and fpent ; If not , to Jamaica I fhortly will go ; Where I'll meet a rich friend , Alexander Lindo . My compliments to my sweet coufins ...
J. B. Moreton. Where , if I fucceed , I will fettle content , ' Till I mufter as much as I gambled and fpent ; If not , to Jamaica I fhortly will go ; Where I'll meet a rich friend , Alexander Lindo . My compliments to my sweet coufins ...
الصفحة 88
... till night , in like manner as if they were mules or oxen ! instead of nourishing them with proper food , and dividing them into different gangs , proportioning the work to their abilities and ftrength . Such overfeers deferve not the ...
... till night , in like manner as if they were mules or oxen ! instead of nourishing them with proper food , and dividing them into different gangs , proportioning the work to their abilities and ftrength . Such overfeers deferve not the ...
الصفحة 95
... till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of the fhell , is fer- viceable ; alfo , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green ...
... till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of the fhell , is fer- viceable ; alfo , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green ...
الصفحة 96
... till twelve , at which time he returns - he dines about one o'clock , he fits at the foot of the table oppofite the overfeer . When the bell is rung to order the flaves out to work , the cowfkin hero drinks the King , as a fignal for ...
... till twelve , at which time he returns - he dines about one o'clock , he fits at the foot of the table oppofite the overfeer . When the bell is rung to order the flaves out to work , the cowfkin hero drinks the King , as a fignal for ...
الصفحة 105
... till they want them . They are amazing fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affum . ing and prefuming ...
... till they want them . They are amazing fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affum . ing and prefuming ...
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