 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Bible - 1827 - 184 pages
...slave, in a day. In road making the day's task under slavery, was to break four barrels of stone. 18 Now, by task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." p. 89. " At the Baptist station at Sligoville, we spent several hours. It is located on a lofty hill,... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Blacks - 1840 - 336 pages
...extensive and accurate acquaintance with the subject, is highly favorable. His only fear is, lest unequal laws, or unjust practices, should impede its native...united in the views which were there unfolded. He is interested in five estates in Jamaica, which are regulated on fair principles — so powerful, in themselves,... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Black people - 1840 - 328 pages
...differences, and the people are working well. The quantity of work obtained from a freeman there, is tar beyond the old task of the slave. In the laborious...slavery, was to break four barrels of stone. \Now, by task- work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve barrels. Afterwards... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 442 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels...eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." — p. 89. " The rapid diffusion of marriage among the negroes, and the increase of it even among the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 432 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels of stone. JVbw, by task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." — p.... | |
 | Marmaduke Blake Sampson - Enslaved persons - 1845 - 100 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of a slave in a day. In road-making the day's task, under slavery, was to break four barrels...fill eight barrels, a strong one from ten to twelve barrels."—Gurney. loped in any other way than by the rudest occupations of agriculture or art, and... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1848 - 426 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels of stone. ./Vote, by. task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." —... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1853 - 864 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels of stone. JYoiv, by task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." — p.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1854 - 874 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels of stone. Abie, by task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve." — p.... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Cuba - 1860 - 374 pages
...occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making, the day's task under Slavery, was to break four barrels of stone. Now, by job-work, a weak -hand will fill eight barrels, and a strong one from ten to twelve." "I had rather,"... | |
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... consequence is, that there have been no differences, and the people are working well. The quantity of work obtained from a freeman there is far beyond the old task of the slave. In the laborious occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform... 
