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The Sea Island soil produces the best cotton in the world, and the negroes already have it in a state of more thorough cultivation than was ever before known.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The Sea Island soil produces the best cotton in the world, and the negroes already have it in a state of more thorough…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid notes the exceptional quality of cotton produced in the Sea Island region and the improved cultivation by freedmen.
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