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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... when part of the field is thus lined , 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 ...
... when part of the field is thus lined , 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 ...
الصفحة 44
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 own , to hire ...
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 own , to hire ...
الصفحة 46
... which is commonly referved for the use of the fick 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 .
... which is commonly referved for the use of the fick 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 .
الصفحة 52
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
الصفحة 54
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of 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 ...
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of 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 ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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