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 71
An attorney should fee that the work went regularly on in rotation ; that the ground was holed in proper time and feason , and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and ...
An attorney should fee that the work went regularly on in rotation ; that the ground was holed in proper time and feason , and the canes planted accordingly ; he should be a parent to the whole eftate , flaves , cattle , mules , and ...
الصفحة 82
... the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 95
... is ferviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to ...
... is ferviceable ; also , to turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grafs pafture , and to keep them under fome fhade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to ...
الصفحة 149
... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , " And waste its sweetness on the defert air . ” On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those who are abfent , without permiffion ...
... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , " And waste its sweetness on the defert air . ” On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those who are abfent , without permiffion ...
الصفحة 150
Those who live in pairs together , as man and wife , are mutual helpmates to each other : the men build their huts , and affift to work their grounds ; the women prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , louse their heads ...
Those who live in pairs together , as man and wife , are mutual helpmates to each other : the men build their huts , and affift to work their grounds ; the women prog for food , boil their pots at noon and night , louse their heads ...
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