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 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 17
الصفحة 36
... 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 ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affected alfo appear attend attorney become better blood book-keepers called canes carry cattle cent commonly confidered corn Creole cure dear drink eftate eight fame feet feveral fhall fhould field five flaves fmall follow fome fometimes fond foon four frequently friends fuch fugar gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf holes houſe human hundred ignorant Indies Jamaica keep kind known ladies leaft liquor live mafter manager manner means merchants mind Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature neceffary negroes never night obferve obliged once overfeers pain particularly perfon plantation planter planting poffible poor taken temper themſelves thing thofe thoſe thouſand till tion town turn wenches whole wine women woods young yourſelf