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 79
... tion in Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to ...
... tion in Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called Book - keepers ; and in the Windward Islands Overfeer's or Negro- Drivers ; however , when I have occafion to ...
الصفحة 146
... tion is as follows : In the morning about half an hour after four the bell is rung to order them out to labour ; at the dawn of day the book- keeper calls the lift , and every flave who is ab- fent is paid with a few ftripes afterwards ...
... tion is as follows : In the morning about half an hour after four the bell is rung to order them out to labour ; at the dawn of day the book- keeper calls the lift , and every flave who is ab- fent is paid with a few ftripes afterwards ...
الصفحة 166
... tion to the wholesome admonition of a friend ; fo irresistibly we may be drawn away , ' till irre- trievably funk in the quickfands of iniquity , or fhattered on the rocks of mifery and def- pair ! Bad customs are easily learned , but ...
... tion to the wholesome admonition of a friend ; fo irresistibly we may be drawn away , ' till irre- trievably funk in the quickfands of iniquity , or fhattered on the rocks of mifery and def- pair ! Bad customs are easily learned , but ...
الصفحة 190
... tion many inftances of their base ingratitude , but it is folly to repeat grievances . Ingratitude is a moft heinous fin ; if you wish to lible or to ftigmatize your enemy , you cannot say worse than that he is ungrateful . Gratitude ...
... tion many inftances of their base ingratitude , but it is folly to repeat grievances . Ingratitude is a moft heinous fin ; if you wish to lible or to ftigmatize your enemy , you cannot say worse than that he is ungrateful . Gratitude ...
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