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 12
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to 1 to and from their boats ; feveral lufty yellow fellows 12 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and repaffing , are obliged to be carried on men's fhoulders to 1 to and from their boats ; feveral lufty 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 ...
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 ...
الصفحة 42
... and plentiful markets held in all the towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eit or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away .
... and plentiful markets held in all the towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eit or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away .
الصفحة 44
The fmall 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 fmall 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 trafh lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in fmall quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
The canes being cut , and all the trafh lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in fmall quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
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