 | Industries - 1851 - 748 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. — Hence...torpid to meditate mischief, or even to be aroused by any angry passions to deeds of daring. Dysaesthesia, or hebetude of sensation of both mind and body,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1852 - 576 pages
...partaking freely he works with, and spoiling every thing he of liquids. At night he should be touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the overseers call it "main a warm room with a small fire in it, and should have a clean bed with sufficient NEGROES DISEASES... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 766 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...supposing that the mischief is intentionally done. * * * " The term, ' rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded on an erroneous hypothesis,... | |
 | Medicine - 1857 - 590 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...supposing that the mischief is intentionally done The term ' rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded on an erroneous hypythcsis, and... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 756 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...supposing that the mischief is intentionally done. * * * " The term, ' rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded on an erroneous hypothesis,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Cotton growing - 1861 - 394 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate—breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...supposing that the mischief is intentionally done. * * * " The term, ' rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded on an erroneous hypothesis,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Cotton growing - 1861 - 396 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...supposing that the mischief is intentionally done. * * * " The term, 'rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded on an erroneous hypothesis,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 398 pages
...plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with, and spoiling everything he touches that can be injured by careless handling. Hence the...call it ' rascality,' supposing that the mischief is intentiouallv done. * * * " The term, ' rascality,' given to this disease by overseers, is founded... | |
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When driven to labor by the compulsive power of the white man, he performs the task assigned to him in a headlong, careless manner, treading down with his feet or cutting with his hoe the plants he is put to cultivate — breaking the tools he works with,... 
