Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1795. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The peoprietors who do not cultivate their lands themselves, may adopt different methods of cultivating them, or make different agreements with those who cultivate them. § 20. Firji method, or cultivation by labourers en wages. They may, in the first place, pay men by the day or the year, to work their fields, and reserve to themselves the whole of the produce; this includes a supposition that the proprietor pays all advances, both for feed and the wages of the labourers, until after the harvest. X But this method requires great labour and assiduity on the part of the proprietor, who alone can direct; his men in their labour, fee that they employ their time well, and watch over their fidelity, that they shall not carry away any part of the produce. It is true that he may pay a man of more knowledge, and whose fidelity he knows, who, in quality of manager and conductor, may direct the workmen, and keep an account of the produce; but he will be always subject to fraud. Besides, this method is extremely expensive, unless a large population, •r or want of employ in other species of labour, forces the workmen to content themselves with very low salaries. §21. Second method, cultivation by Jlaves. In times not very distant from the origin of society, it was almost impossible to sind men willing to work on the lands of another, because all the land not being as yet occupied, those who were willing to labour, preserred the clearing of new lands, and the cultivating them on their own account: this is pretty much the cafe in all new colonies. In this situation violent men then conceived the expedient of obliging other men by force to labour for them. They employed slaves. These latter have had no justice to look for, from the hands of people, who have not ...
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