osnaburgs

In summer, their clothing is composed of osnaburgs.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

In summer, their clothing is composed of osnaburgs.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Negro-cloth, as it is called, osnaburgs, russet-colored shoes, -- in short, the distinctive apparel formerly dealt out to them, as a uniform allowance, -- are very generally rejected.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Print cloth and sheetings, drills and osnaburgs are their products, and they make them right.

Mill News. Vol. XXII, no. 16 (Oct. 14, 1920) No Author 1920

A land-office was formally opened, deeds were issued, and a store was established which supplied the colonists with powder, lead, salt, osnaburgs, blankets, and other chief necessities of pioneer existence.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

The slaves were well fed and well clothed in osnaburgs and linseys cut and made in the sewing room of the "big house."

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

Clothes, too, wore out, as is their nature, and the kind we were used to wearing were not of the lasting variety like osnaburgs and linseys.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

Every October cloth was issued at the rate of seven yards of osnaburgs, three of checks, and three of baize for each adult and proportionately for children.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

Mr. L has sent to buy some bags which (considering what we have given for osnaburgs 1,25 a yd) are not unreasonable -- you can send them to and fro -- tell Anne I have begged Wm to engage some whiskey from Goodwin for her -- he sent us some excellent, and if he did not change his price it is only 17 a gallon.

Elliott and Gonzales Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Elliott 1865

Mr. L has sent to buy some bags which (considering what we have given for osnaburgs 1,25 a yd) are not unreasonable -- you can send them to and fro -- tell Anne I have begged Wm to engage some whiskey from Goodwin for her -- he sent us some excellent, and if he did not change his price it is only 17 a gallon.

Elliott and Gonzales Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Elliott 1865