The manager had given them a piece of ground "to hole," engaging to pay them sixteen dollars when they had finished it.

He remarked that he had found it a good plan to give _jobs_.

He obtained more work in this way than he did by giving the ordinary wages, which is about eleven cents per day.

It looked very much like slavery to see the females working in the field; but the manager said they chose it generally "_for the sake of the wages_." Mr.B.
returned with us to the house, leaving the gangs in the field, with only an aged negro in charge of the work, as _superintendent._ Such now is the name of the overseer.

The very _terms_, _driver_ and _overseer_, are banished from Antigua; and the _whip_ is buried beneath the soil of freedom.
[Footnote A: In those cases where the plough is used at all.