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The negroes had gone to work: it was the only way they knew for getting bread, except when the morals of slavery had taught them to steal, and for that there was now small chance.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid notes the necessity for freed slaves to work for survival in the post-war economy.
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