On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
In a word, I found everything managed with a much more scrupulous regard to economy, both of men and things, time and strength, than in the country from which I had come.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass summarizes his overall impression of the North's approach to resources and labor compared to the wasteful practices he observed in the slaveholding South.
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