taskable

Adjective

 * 1)  To which tasks can be assigned.
 * 2)  (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
 * 3) * 1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part1, Chapter3, p.198, footnote85,
 * [The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.
 * 1) * 1796, court record, Neufville v. Mitchell, 1Desaussure 480, South Carolina, cited in (ed.), Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929, pp.277-278,
 * defendant states  many of them were diseased and not taskable;
 * 1) * 1813, Bahama Gazette, 19December, 1813, cited in Howard Johnson, The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, p.29,
 * to oblige Planters to plant a certain quantity of Provisions to each taskable Negro
 * to oblige Planters to plant a certain quantity of Provisions to each taskable Negro

Noun

 * 1)  On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
 * 2) * 1937,, Ante-Bellum North Carolina, Chapel Hill, p.83, cited in , The Myth of the Negro Past, Boston: Harper, 1941, Chapter5, p.128,
 * The very young and the old were usually engaged in the house, while the full “taskables” were more profitably employed in the field.
 * 1) * 1937,, Ante-Bellum North Carolina, Chapel Hill, p.83, cited in , The Myth of the Negro Past, Boston: Harper, 1941, Chapter5, p.128,
 * The very young and the old were usually engaged in the house, while the full “taskables” were more profitably employed in the field.
 * The very young and the old were usually engaged in the house, while the full “taskables” were more profitably employed in the field.