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They are working men, and work is flavored to the Southerner with ideas of ignominy, of meanness, of vulgar lowness.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgThey are working men, and work is flavored to the Southerner with ideas of ignominy, of meanness, of vulgar lowness.
He highlights the negative connotations associated with labor in Southern society.
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