The book The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina was written by author H M Howell Meadoes Henry Here you can read free online of The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina a good or bad book?
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It may here be remarked that the place of a field hand was regarded by the slave as the most menial, so much so that a threat to a house servant that he would be transferred to the field was usually quite sufficient to make him more diligent and attentive to his duties. Thus it often came about that in many cases the master had a complete ar- rangement or agreement with his slave that the latter would be allowed to work at his trade, or job work, going and coming as he pleased provided he broug...ht the master each t Negroes for Hire On Monday, the 1st of January next, before the court-house in Colum- bia, will be hired for one year, the negroes belonging to the children of , deceased, by order of the guardian. Dec. 22. Southern Times and State Gazette, Dec. 22, 1837. See also Harley vs. DeWitt, 2 Hill (Chancery), 367, in 1835. Control of Slaves in South Carolina 97 week or month a specified sum or part of his earnings, all over and above that amount being allowed to the slave. This was called the slave's "hiring out his time, " or more accurately it was the master "hiring out" the slave's time to the slave himself for which the slave paid a stipu- lated amount.
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