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 44
... rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from 44 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from 44 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 45
... something like flaggers ; still , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become burthensome to the stalk , so that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known ...
... something like flaggers ; still , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become burthensome to the stalk , so that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known ...
الصفحة 46
... something like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I saw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the ...
... something like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or converted into rum ; I saw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the ...
الصفحة 56
... something like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to ...
... something like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to ...
الصفحة 63
... something surprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses . There are about seventy ...
... something surprising to think what fre- quent executions take place ; the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horses . There are about seventy ...
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