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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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 jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or ...
... 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 jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or ...
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 recom- mend 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 recom- mend 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 perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been ...
... negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been ...
الصفحة 55
... preferment , think attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
... preferment , think attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or negroes in IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 55.
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