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
... or in the company of lewd mongrel women , Sunday , is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country Aock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro ...
... or in the company of lewd mongrel women , Sunday , is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country Aock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro ...
الصفحة 39
... strongest stores and houses 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 . Lord have mercy on their souls !
... strongest stores and houses 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 . Lord have mercy on their souls !
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 strait as pollible with a line and square : the line is 1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight 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 strait as pollible with a line and square : the line is 1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight 42 ...
الصفحة 43
1 the pegs 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 ...
1 the pegs 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 ...
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 strength 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 strength of their own , to hire ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf