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American Negro Slavery

CHAPTER III
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His kinsman Rose Price Esquire who was in active charge was not salaried but may have received a manager's commission of six per cent, on gross crop sales as contemplated in the laws of the colony.

In addition there were an overseer at L200, later L300, a year, four bookkeepers at L50 to L60, a white carpenter at L120, and a white plowman at L56.

The overseer was changed three times during the five years of the record, and the bookkeepers were generally replaced annually.

The bachelor staff was most probably responsible for the mulatto and quadroon offspring and was doubtless responsible also for the occasional manumission of a woman or child.
Rewards for zeal in service were given chiefly to the "drivers" or gang foremen.

Each of these had for example every year a "doubled milled cloth colored great coat" costing 11$.


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