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 43
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk of seven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end ...
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk of seven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end ...
الصفحة 46
... though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a sort of dirty black sugar without any grain , something like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada ...
... though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a sort of dirty black sugar without any grain , something like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada ...
الصفحة 50
... the field from morning until night , observe the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them ...
... the field from morning until night , observe the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them ...
الصفحة 77
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure some of the finest young wenches for the gen . tlemen ; about sun set they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ...
In the evening the manager is obliged to procure some of the finest young wenches for the gen . tlemen ; about sun set they are ordered from the field to wait upon their master and his friends ; and though this is a pimp - like action ...
الصفحة 84
He feldom muítered more than seventy in the field , so that he put the estate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing gangs to afist to cultivate the estare , Sneaking Caution took special care to plant plenty of Indian corn ...
He feldom muítered more than seventy in the field , so that he put the estate to an annual expence of £ 200 or £ 300 for jobing gangs to afist to cultivate the estare , Sneaking Caution took special care to plant plenty of Indian corn ...
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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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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