 | Zachary Macaulay - 1823 - 122 pages
...to market. It may not be generally understood, that not only is Sunday a market-day in Jamaica, but that, for the Negroes, whether as venders of the fruit...of, or as purchasers of the little necessaries or * The law referred to above specifies these periods of half an hour and two hours as the proper intervals... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - 1823 - 138 pages
...to market. It may not be generally understood, that not only is Sunday a market-day in Jamaica, but that, for the Negroes, whether as venders of the fruit...of, or as purchasers of the little necessaries or * The law referred to above specifies these periods of half an hour and two hours as the proper intervals... | |
 | 1824 - 574 pages
...market. ' It may not be generally understood, that not only is Sunday a market day in Jamaica, but that, for the negroes, whether as venders of the fruit,...or comforts they may wish to buy in return, Sunday if the only market day. Such, however, is the fact. ' The distance of the place of market, varying... | |
 | Graham W. Irwin - 1977 - 432 pages
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... only day which was allowed them, during the five months of crop, for cultivating their provision-grounds ; for bringing thence the food requisite for their sustenance during the week ; and for going to market. ' It may not be generally understood,... 