 The Proprietor, in the first place, wishes the Overseer most distinctly to understand that his first object is to be, under all circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes.  Memories of the Southern States - Page 104by Elizabeth Collins - 1865 - 116 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - 1918 - 544 lehte
...i!U!u."«rf-4beai,»uJjer in .time, cf sickness for care." P. (^^^[gzi nu»iQL South Ciirolinajvrote in • The proprietor, in the first place, wishes the overseer...circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes. Thi^ proprietor is always ready to excuse such errors as may proceedX from want of judgment; ^"^-tlfi... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 lehte
...Rules. PC Weston writes for a South Carolina plantation the following instructions for his overseer : "The Proprietor, in the first place, wishes the Overseer...want of judgment ; but he never can or will excuse cruelty, severity, or -want of care towards the negroes. For the well being, however, of the negroes,... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 lehte
...limits of endurance. "The proprietor wishes the overseer most distinctly to understand," said CP Weston, "that his first object is to be, under all circumstances, the care and well-being of the negroes. The proprietor is always ready to excuse such errors as may proceed from... | |
 | Robert Whaples, Dianne C. Betts - 1995 - 658 lehte
...duties in these particulars, is to be unfit for the responsible station you hold." PC Weston charged his overseer "most distinctly to understand that his first...circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes." Consequently, All sick persons are to stay in the hospital night and day, from the time they first... | |
 | Robert William Fogel, Stanley L Engerman - 1995 - 338 lehte
...reported that the average expenditure of New York workers on clothes was below the recommended level. overseer "most distinctly to understand that his first...circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes." Consequently, All sick persons are to stay in the hospital night and day, from the time they first... | |
 | Berel Lang - 2000 - 284 lehte
...steady increase in value of the rest of the property. A fellow South Carolinian reminded his overseer that his first object is to be, under all circumstances,...care and well being of the negroes. The proprietor . . . never can or will excuse any cruelty, severity or want of care toward the negroes. For the well... | |
 | Kenneth F. Kiple, Virginia Himmelsteib King - 2003 - 320 lehte
...South Carolina slaveholder could scarcely have been more explicit when he cautioned his overseer that "the Proprietor, in the first place wishes the Overseer...all circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes."20 As these instructions suggest, there is much truth in the assertion "that many planters... | |
 | Gary M. Fink, Merl E. Reed - 2003 - 324 lehte
...chattels unmistakably clear in contracts. "The Proprietor, in the first place," Weston emphasized, "wishes the Overseer MOST DISTINCTLY to understand...circumstances, the care and well being of the negroes." To discover any maltreatment, many masters encouraged slaves to report complaints about overseers.... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 lehte
...consistency, and our claim to the spirit of Christianity itself." Rice planter PC Weston informed his overseer that "his first object is to be, under all circumstances,...will excuse any cruelty, severity or want of care toward the negroes." 55 The slave, Florence Napier, noted that: Ise sho' 'joy myse'f on de old plantation,... | |
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