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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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 39
... trees by the roots , level the strongeft ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
... trees by the roots , level the strongeft ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
الصفحة 42
The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all shrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as posible with a line and square : the line is is marked at every seven or eight feet with a 42 ...
The piece of ground intended for canes is first cleared of all shrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as posible with a line and square : the line is is marked at every seven or eight feet with a 42 ...
الصفحة 43
is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient firength of their own , to hire ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient firength of their own , to hire ...
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| العنوان | 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 Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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