On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I saw there industry without bustle, labor without noise, toil--honest, earnest, and exhaustive, without the whip.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I saw there industry without bustle, labor without noise, toil--honest, earnest, and exhaustive, without the whip.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes his initial observations of free labor on the wharves of New Bedford, contrasting it with the forced labor of the South.
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