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The negroes had gone to work; the whites too often were listlessly awaiting events, and talking of selling their houses or lands to get bread.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The negroes had gone to work; the whites too often were listlessly awaiting events, and talking of selling their houses…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid observes the contrasting work ethic between freed African Americans and white Southerners during the post-war period.
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