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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... field is thus lined , the negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they ...
... field is thus lined , the negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they ...
الصفحة 46
... field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use ...
... field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use ...
الصفحة 50
... field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick ...
... field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick ...
الصفحة 77
... field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most managers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wash themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great ...
... field to wait upon their mafter and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action , most managers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wash themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great ...
الصفحة 84
... field , fo that he put the eftate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing gangs to affift to cultivate the eftate . * Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves ...
... field , fo that he put the eftate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing gangs to affift to cultivate the eftate . * Sneaking Caution took fpecial care to plant plenty of Indian corn to pamper his horfes , and feed his flaves ...
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