 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. Truly, I have seen such cruelty there done to servants,...  Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825 - Page 41by Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1826 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...they are beaten by the overseer; if they resist, their time is doubled. I have seen an overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head, till the blood...not think one Christian could have done to another." Of another race of men, we believe hardly a vestige remains, except in one or two of the islands, where... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...they are beaten by the overseer ; if they resist, their time is doubled. I have seen an overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head, till the blood...not think one Christian could have done to another." Of another race of men, we believe hardly a vestige remains, except in one or two of the islands, where... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...have the worser lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill-lodging, and their diet very slight. Truly I have seen such cruelty there done to servants,...not think one Christian could have done to another.' This had occasioned a plot for murdering the planters ; it was discovered ; and eighteen of the persons... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - Slavery - 1832 - 334 pages
...they are beaten by the overseer ; if they resist, their time is doubled. I have seen an overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head till the blood...the time of the Long Parliament. Verily may we say — Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. a tower twenty feet high a kind of provoking of Providence.... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pages
...have the worser lives, for they are put to very hard labour, ill-lodging, and their diet very slight. Truly I have seen such cruelty there done to servants,...not think one Christian could have done to another.' This had occasioned a plot for murdering the planters ; it was discovered ; and eighteen of the persons... | |
 | James Henry Stark - Antilles, Lesser - 1903 - 324 pages
...are theirs but for five years according to the laws of the Island. Truly, I have seen such cruelty done to Servants, as I did not think one Christian could have done to another. Upon the arrival of any ship that brings servants to the Island, the Planters go aboard ; and having... | |
 | George Ives - Crime - 1914 - 498 pages
...said to have been protected only in theory, and of Barbadoes in the early period a witness exclaims, " Truly I have seen such cruelty there done to servants...not think one Christian could have done to another." * The most common punishment was, of course, flogging ; • servants were generally flogged where freemen... | |
 | Vincent Todd Harlow - History - 1924 - 396 pages
...they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I have seen an Overseer beat a Servant with a 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 - Barbados - 1926 - 380 pages
...they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I have seen an Overseer beat a Servant with a 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 - Barbados - 1926 - 384 pages
...they are beaten by an Overseer ; if they resist their time is doubled. I have seen an Overseer beat a Servant with a 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... | |
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