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nyp.33433075912919	Thome, James A.	Emancipation in the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antiqua, Barbados, and Jamaica, in the year 1837 by Jas. A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball 	1839		.txt	text/plain	146575	9462	73	In Antigua and Barbados, manager is the word in general use; in Jamaica it is oversee,—both meaning the practical conductor, or immediate superintendent of an estate. 349—Causes of the diminution of crops, 351—Anticipated consequences of full emancipation, 353—Examination of those anticipations, 354—Views of Colored People, Magistrates, Missionaries, He said, the planters all conceded that emancipation had been a great blessing to the island, and he did not At short intervals were seen the buildings of the different estates thrown together in small groups, consisting of the manager's mansion and out-houses, negro huts, boiling house, cooling estates, said that he was in England at the time the bill for immediate emancipation passed the legislature. Another planter, by way of replying to our inquiry on this subject, sent for a negro child of five years, who read with great employs much of his time in laboring among the colored people in the town, and among the apprentices on the estates, in the	./cache/nyp.33433075912919.pdf	./txt/nyp.33433075912919.txt