On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Besides being dependent upon the roughest and flintiest kind of labor, the climate of the South makes such labor uninviting and harshly repulsive to the white man.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Besides being dependent upon the roughest and flintiest kind of labor, the climate of the South makes such labor…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass explains in his autobiography that the demanding nature of Southern labor and its climate deterred white men, leaving it to Black workers.
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