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If they could make the niggers work he would adopt their policy, and he knew he could do as well with niggers, whenever he found out how to get the power to control them, as any Yankee could.
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Whitelaw Reid
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The planter reveals his willingness to adopt Northern practices for labor management if it proves profitable.
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