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... proprietors and managers to do the heaviest parts of labour on sugar estates, and to repair roads, &c'.2° The gangs did not work by shifts, as one might say today, but by spells. In 'spell keeping' each gang would be 'expected to take spell' at certain...

A Letter to Robert Hibbert, Jun. Esq., in Reply to His Pamphlet, Entitled ... - Pagina 37
door Thomas Cooper - 1824 - 90 pagina’s
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A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies, Or, An ...

Alexander Barclay - 1827 - 596 pagina’s

...Oates's assertion. I have often seen the lists of the two gangs on Georgia hung up in the boiling house : I have examined them with a book-keeper, who assured...up at their spell the whole of every other night.' p. 37. Perhaps this will appear as convincing an answer as any Mr. C. has given to the affidavits of...

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