You take the ordinary person who lives on a plantation, and so long as that person is ignorant, he is content to live in a cabin with one room, in which he has a skillet, a bedstead--or an apology for one--a table, and a few chairs or stools.
Washington describes the contentment of an uneducated person living in simple conditions on a plantation.
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