 | Charities - 1812 - 428 pages
...wretched"* condition as the team and its driver. Sometimes a couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot...by which it was - drawn or rolled along the road. I hare seen two oxen and two slaves pretty fully employed in getting along a single hogshead ; and some... | |
 | History - 1813 - 818 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something like a shaft attached, by which it was drawn er rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen andtwoslaves pretty fully employed in getting along... | |
 | Robert Sutcliff - Society of Friends - 1815 - 336 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...and some of these come from a great distance inland. In the evening of this day, I had a pleasant sail up the Patowmack to George-Town Washington— Frederick-Town—... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...and some of these come from a great distance inland. In conversation with HB he related to me an affecting narrative of a black boy, who came under the... | |
 | William Ladd - Peace - 1831 - 890 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...drawn or rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen ami two slaves pretty fully employed in getting along a single hogshead; end some of these come from... | |
 | Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...couple of horses, mules, 4or Cows, &c_ would he dragging a hogshead of tohaceo, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something like a shaft attached, hy which it was drawn or rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen and two slaves pretty fully employed... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 262 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot, or axle, driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...some of these come .from a great distance inland." The inhabitants of free States are often told that they cannot argue fairly upon the subject of slavery... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1836 - 260 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c., would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot, or axle, driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...road. I have seen two oxen and two slaves pretty fully employeil in getting along a single hogshead ; and some of these come from a great distance inland."... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1836 - 224 pages
...couple of horses, mules, or cows, &c., would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot, or axle, driven into each end of the hogshead, and something like a shaft attached, by which it was drawn, of rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen and two slaves pretty fully employed in getting along... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 468 pages
...Sometimes a couple of horses, mules, or cows would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something...some of these come from a great distance inland." In the middle of these primitive sights, Sutcliffe was startled by a contrast such as Virginia could... | |
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Sometimes a couple of horses, mules, or cows would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axle driven into each end of the hogshead, and something like a shaft attached, by which it was drawn or rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen... 
