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In driving about it, we passed dozens of new frame houses, built and occupied by negroes, who had bought, with their own earnings, the lots on which their dwellings stood.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid notes the economic progress of formerly enslaved individuals who have purchased their own homes, highlighting a shift in social dynamics.
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