Whitelaw Reid: “I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this…”

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I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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Reid reflects on the positive demeanor of laborers on a plantation during his travels in the South post-Civil War.

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