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 Edition |
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... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome distance from the shore : people passing and repasling , are obliged to be carried on men's shoulders to to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome distance from the shore : people passing and repasling , are obliged to be carried on men's shoulders to to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 36
Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small ...
Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small ...
الصفحة 42
... daily ; the butchers Naughter sometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provisions either fold or carried away . The sea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish .
... daily ; the butchers Naughter sometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provisions either fold or carried away . The sea and rivers abound with great variety of excellent fish .
الصفحة 44
The small weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultivation , manure and labour , than others . The dung being spread in the ...
The small weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and spread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more cultivation , manure and labour , than others . The dung being spread in the ...
الصفحة 47
The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
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