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1839 General Direction As To Treatment Of Negroes
1st: They must be well clothed and fed and attended to in sickness.
2nd: The crop must never be too great. Rather have too little planted than too much.
3rd: The women and children must be particularly attended to in sickness, and the former never pushed when complaining.
4th: The women are never to work out at all in cold wet weather in the winter, but must be kept in the house to spin etc., -- they must not be exposed.
5th: There must be general rules adopted and always adherred to.
6th: No negro must be allowed to go off the place without a pass and to a particular place and nowhere else.
7th: They must not be allowed to go off but very seldom except to church every Sunday and must then be on the plantation at all except sent on business.
8th: No strange negroes must come on the plantation at all except on business.
9th: No negroe is to have a wife off of the plantation and no strange negro is to have a wife on the plantation.
10th: There is to be no noise by any negro on the place after 10 o'clock at night, but at that time the overseer must see that all go to bed, and no light allowed in any house after that time except as fire to warm by.
11th: All must start to work at light in the morning.
12th: No torch to be allowed about the plantation for fear of fire.