There are few large planters; small farms are easily purchased; the community is made up of men not ashamed to labor for themselves, and not disposed to sneer at the emigrant who fences his own fields and does his own plowing.
Reid describes the agricultural landscape of East Tennessee and its appeal to laborers.
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