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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... negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task 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 to the other ; they then fall back to the ...
... negroes fet in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task 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 to the other ; they then fall back to the ...
الصفحة 44
... 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 own , to hire jobbinggangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a ...
... 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 own , to hire jobbinggangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a ...
الصفحة 46
... negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in . duftrious experienced planters . When canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every ...
... negroes , or converted into rum ; I faw many fine crops ruined through fuch neglect , and yet the managers were fupported better than many in . duftrious experienced planters . When canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every ...
الصفحة 52
... negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and fyrrup , they get about the works . The diftill - houfe is ...
... negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten upon the canes , and flops of liquor , and fyrrup , they get about the works . The diftill - houfe is ...
الصفحة 54
... negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been ...
... negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been ...
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