ISBN: 9781459059436

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Houses and Gardens of the Negroes, their Mode of Life, 8$c. The most common size of the negro houses is 28 feet long by 14 broad. Posts of hard wood about 9 feet long, or 7 above ground, are placed at a distance of two feet from one another, and the space between is closely wattled up and plastered. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Houses and Gardens of the Negroes, their Mode of Life, 8$c. The most common size of the negro houses is 28 feet long by 14 broad. Posts of hard wood about 9 feet long, or 7 above ground, are placed at a distance of two feet from one another, and the space between is closely wattled up and plastered. The roof is covered with the long mountain-thatch, palmeto-thatch, or dried guinea-grass, either of which is more durable than the straw thatch used in this country. Cane tops are also used for the purpose, but are not so lasting. To throw off the rain the thatch is brought down a considerable distance over the walls, which in consequence look low, and the roof high. The house is divided into three, and sometimes four apartments. The room in the middle, occupying the whole breadth of the house, has a door on each side, to admit a circulation of air. This is the sitting apartment, and here the poorer class make fire and cook their victuals; the more wealthy have a separate kitchen at a little distance. The smaller houses have the sitting room in one end, and two sleeping apartments in the other. Behind the house is the garden, filled with plantains, ochras, and other vegetables, which are produced at all seasons. It abounds also withcocoa-nut and calabash trees. A good cocoa-nut will be a meal to a man, and boiled among the sugar (which the negroes frequently do), would be a feast to an epicure. It contains also about a pint of a delicious juice, called ' cocoa-nut milk; the leaves, which are thick, and twelve or fifteen feet long, are shed occasionally all the year round, and not only make excellent fuel, but are sometimes used for thatch. The nut also yields oil for Jamps, and the shell is made into cups. Thus one tree affords meat, drink, fuel, thatch, oil for lamps, and cups Books, Social Sciences~~Sociology~~General, A-Practical-View-Of-The-Present-State-Of-Slavery-In-The-West-Indies~~Alexander-Barclay, 999999999, A Practical View Of The Present State Of Slavery In The West Indies, Alexander Barclay, 1459059433, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781459059436

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1826. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... OF THE PRESENT STATE OF SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES, &c. &c. On Mr. Stephens Slavery in the British West India Colonies? ''Preliminary Chapter.-- Of the necessity and importance of describing the state in question.'' p. 1. I N the task I have undertaken, it is not my object to defend slavery: far be it from me to say, that those who established it in our colonies did right, or that being established there, it ought to be perpetual. But the question, when or how slavery may be abolished in any particular country or colony where it exists, is one of no small difficulty, however easy it may seem to many benevolent enthusiasts; and before making an attempt which might produce effects very different from those we intended, it would at least be proper to enquire, first, whether those we would set free, are yet capable of conducting themselves as freemen, or of preserving their freedom, -- in short, whether, all circumstances considered, they would be benefited by it; --and secondly, whether we can effect B their freedom with a due regard to justice, which would be equally violated by our depriving a man of his slaves, as by depriving him of any other species of property which the laws of the land have sanctioned the acquirement of. Mr. Stephen himself, though so hostile to the slavery in our colonies, that he seems to think it ought to be abolished at any sacrifice of life and property to the colonists, and even, it would seem, at the expense of some indemnity, to be made them by the mother country, is yet sufficiently moderate on the abstract question.* ''The ardent lovers of freedom,'' says he, ''will, I hope, pardon me. To no British palate has that rich produce of our soil a higher flavour than to my own. But yet I am not prepared to say, that in no other cou... Alexander Barclay, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, A Practical View Of The Present State Of Slavery In The West Indies; Containing More Particularly An Account Of The Actual Conditi Books>Social and Cultural Studies <