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Henry Ward Beecher: They are working men, and work is flavored to the Southerner with ideas of ignominy, of meanness, of vulgar lowness.

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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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He highlights the negative connotations associated with labor in Southern society.

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