This is the class of people who have got just enough education to make them want everything they see, but who have not got enough to make them able to get what they want unless they go beyond their means to do so.
He describes a class of people who desire more than they can afford due to inadequate education.
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Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.
I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
When they saw that I was not afraid or ashamed to work, they began to assist with more enthusiasm.