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The increased wants of the freedmen will stimulate trade, and small farmers will not be able, as the planters were in old times, to go to Savannah or Charleston and buy supplies at wholesale.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid discusses how the needs of freedmen will change trade dynamics in the region.
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