In other cases they knew that these men were dishonest and unprincipled; and yet they encouraged their confiding subordinates to bind themselves to such men for a year, in remote regions, where there was little hope for protection from the Freedman’s Bureau or from civil officers.
Reid discusses the unethical practices of some individuals who mislead freedmen into contracts with dishonest employers.
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But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
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