Meaning of taskable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To which tasks can be assigned.
   not-comparable
2. (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
   US, historical, not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor”

“1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 198, footnote 85, [The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.”

“1796, court record, Neufville v. Mitchell, 1 Desaussure 480, South Carolina, cited in Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (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;”

“1813, Bahama Gazette, 19 December, 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”

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