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...two hundred hands (for the force of two plantations was working together), moving across the field in parallel lines, with a considerable degree of precision....change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers, or causing one of them, so far as I could see, to lift an eye from the ground. I had noticed...

...case with the hoe-gangs. One of them numbered nearly two hundred hands, moving across the field in parallel lines, with a considerable degree of precision....repeatedly rode through the lines at a canter, with other horseQ men, often corning upon them suddenly, without producing the smallest change or interruption...

..."moving across the field in parallel lines, with a considerable degree of precision." He reported that he "repeatedly rode through the lines at a canter, with...change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers."28 Each work gang was based on an internal division of labor that not only assigned every...

...two hundred hands (for the force of two plantations was working together), moving across the field in parallel lines, with a considerable degree of precision....causing one of them to lift an eye from the ground. ' ' Olmsted's industrial images are complemented by Sidney Mintz's insistence on the modernity of slavery:...

...two hundred hands (for the force of two plantations was working together), moving across the field in parallel lines, with a considerable degree of precision....change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers, or causing one of them, so far as I could see, to lift an eye from the ground." What conclusion...

...lines, with a considerable degree of precision." He reported that he repeatedly rode through their lines at a canter with other horsemen, "often coming...change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers" (p. 452). Each work gang was based on an internal division of labor that not only assigned...

...Fogel and Engerman quoted from the contemporary travel accounts by Frederick Law Olmsted: ' I [Olmsted] repeatedly rode through the lines at a canter, with...change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers, or causing one of them, so far as I could see, to lift an eye from the ground'. (Olmsted,...

...Fogel and Engerman quoted from the contemporary travel accoants by Frederick Law Olmsted: ' I [Olmstedj repeatedly rode through the lines at a canter, with other horsemen, often coming upon Ihem suddenly, without producing the smallest change or interruption in the dogged action of the labourers,...