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 71
... whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them ...
... whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them ...
الصفحة 72
... whole eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or ...
... whole eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vaftly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or ...
الصفحة 80
... whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation ...
... whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be against him , and ever after will point him out as a dangerous perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation ...
الصفحة 126
... their rookeries , in order to profti- tute their daughters ; I have been often compel- led by the mother to spend a whole night with her her gingerbread daughter . - Those gypfies have a wonderful 126 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... their rookeries , in order to profti- tute their daughters ; I have been often compel- led by the mother to spend a whole night with her her gingerbread daughter . - Those gypfies have a wonderful 126 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 132
... whole , I think it is a great weakness , and an infatuation bordering on phren- zy in men , to waste their vigour and fubftance upon harlots , whites , Mongrels , or blacks . A virtuous women is a crown of glory , and her price is far ...
... whole , I think it is a great weakness , and an infatuation bordering on phren- zy in men , to waste their vigour and fubftance upon harlots , whites , Mongrels , or blacks . A virtuous women is a crown of glory , and her price is far ...
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