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
... cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are fhifted nightly from penn ...
... cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for fe- veral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them . The cattle and mules are fhifted nightly from penn ...
الصفحة 47
... cattle or mules being chained to thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all ...
... cattle or mules being chained to thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all ...
الصفحة 50
... cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the difpofitions of the flaves , their abilities and ftrength ; and in crop time ftand at the ...
... cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them in good order ; he fhould obferve the difpofitions of the flaves , their abilities and ftrength ; and in crop time ftand at the ...
الصفحة 52
... 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 commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns ...
... 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 commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns ...
الصفحة 57
... cattle and mules , and finding plantation implements , is attended with no finall expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred acres , at 30l . per acre , ( which is very cheap , ) they will ...
... cattle and mules , and finding plantation implements , is attended with no finall expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred acres , at 30l . per acre , ( which is very cheap , ) they will ...
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