 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 330 páginas
...nave the fear of hurricanes so constantly before their eyes, that they seem to have thought cloaths, the cold of the night will strike into them; and if...follow. Truly I have seen such cruelty there done to se'vants, as I did not think one Christian could have done to another.' These servants were Englishmen... | |
 | Vincent Todd Harlow - 1924 - 396 páginas
...daily routine and condition of these servants in Barbados. "If they complain they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I...cane about the head till the blood has followed for an offence that is not worth the speaking of." (Ligon's True and Exact Account of the Barbadoes, p.... | |
 | Vincent Todd Harlow - 1926 - 384 páginas
...strong men, this ill lodging will put them into a sickness ; if they complain they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I...cane about the head till the blood has followed for an offence that is not worth the speaking of.' 1 The most significant feature of this question of treatment... | |
 | Vincent Todd Harlow - 1926 - 380 páginas
...strong men, this ill lodging will put them into a sickness ; if they complain they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I...cane about the head till the blood has followed for an offence that is not worth the speaking of.' 1 The most significant feature of this question of treatment... | |
 | Jim Goad - 1998 - 278 páginas
...Kunta Kinte. So-called "privileged" white skin was brutally ripped open on plantation after plantation. "I have seen an Overseer beat a Servant with a cane about the head till the blood has followed," remarked an observer, "for a fault that is not worth speaking of, yet he must be patient, or worse... | |
 | Graeme Harper - 2001 - 280 páginas
...working conditions endured by bondservants in Barbados: I have seen an Overseer beat a servant with a can about the head, till the blood has followed, for a...and yet he must have patience or worse will follow. . . . Their salt Provisions are weighed out, and they have nothing but what the Law obliges the Master... | |
 | Donald Harman Akenson - 2005 - 850 páginas
...enforce longer indentures than could the planters on the Leewards and could work their servants harder. I have seen an Overseer beat a Servant with a cane about the head, til the blood has flowed, for a fault that is not worth the speaking of ... Truly. I have seen such... | |
 | Don Jordan, Michael Walsh - 2008 - 322 páginas
...overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head until the blood has followed, for a fault that was not worth the speaking of, and yet he must have patience or worse will follow. Truly, I have seen such cruelties there done to servants as I did not think one Christian would have done to another.11 187... | |
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I have seen an overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head till the blood has followed, for a fault that is not worth the speaking of ; and yet he must have patience, or worse will follow. 