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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... grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , fhirts , trow fars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paltry baubles , to give a more fable hue to their footy ...
... grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use , which they fell to purchase hats , gowns , fhirts , trow fars , daucafes or fhifts , trinkets and paltry baubles , to give a more fable hue to their footy ...
الصفحة 39
... 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 fouls ! These awful and tremendous ...
... 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 fouls ! These awful and tremendous ...
الصفحة 42
... ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND ...
... ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND ...
الصفحة 43
... ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the firft , ftill falling back three ...
... ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the firft , ftill falling back three ...
الصفحة 44
J. B. Moreton. 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 ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their ...
J. B. Moreton. 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 ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their ...
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