To have used these terms interchangeably in accordance with the usage in the United States, would have occasioned endless confusion in the narrative.
5.

'Praedial' and 'non-praedial' are terms used in the apprenticeship colonies to mark the difference between the agricultural class and the domestic; the former are called _praedials_, the latter _non-praedials_.
* * * * * POPULATION OF THE BRITISH (FORMERLY SLAVE) COLONIES.
(_Compiled from recent authentic documents._) British Colonies.

White.

Slave.

F.Col'd.