In Antigua and Barbadoes, _manager_ is the word in general use, in Jamaica it is _overseer_--both meaning the practical conductor or immediate superintendent of an estate.

In our own country, a peculiar odium is attached to the latter term.

In the West Indies, the station of manager or overseer is an honorable one; proprietors of estates, and even men of rank, do not hesitate to occupy it.
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The terms 'colored' and 'black' or 'negro' indicate a distinction long kept up in the West Indies between the mixed blood and the pure negro.

The former as a body were few previous to the abolition act; and for this reason chiefly we presume the term of distinction was originally applied to them.