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 141
In Great Britain and Ireland the beasts of the field are better protected by the laws than Naves in the West Indies : for if a horse or a cow is wantonly killed , or deprived of the tail or horns , or any way maliciously maimed ...
In Great Britain and Ireland the beasts of the field are better protected by the laws than Naves in the West Indies : for if a horse or a cow is wantonly killed , or deprived of the tail or horns , or any way maliciously maimed ...
الصفحة 146
As soon as they come into the field , they deliver to the cooks each a small earthen or metal pot and calabash , with something or other to prepare for breakfast ( there are commonly two or three invalid women appointed for cooks ...
As soon as they come into the field , they deliver to the cooks each a small earthen or metal pot and calabash , with something or other to prepare for breakfast ( there are commonly two or three invalid women appointed for cooks ...
الصفحة 147
horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after one , the bell iş rung to order them out ; and every one who is not in the field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the direction of the book - keeper ...
horses and swine ; about forty - five minutes after one , the bell iş rung to order them out ; and every one who is not in the field precisely at two , gets a certain number of lashes , by the direction of the book - keeper ...
الصفحة 152
The women , when pregnant , work in the fields till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate ... they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on sheep - skins in the field .
The women , when pregnant , work in the fields till a few days before they lie - in ; ( for work , if moderate ... they are tied with handkerchiefs ; and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on sheep - skins in the field .
الصفحة 154
Him turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinning on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and busses ; Him get one pickinniny , white !
Him turn me out into the field , Wid hoe , the ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinning on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obissha , him de come one night , And give me gown and busses ; Him get one pickinniny , white !
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