Half-a-dozen families, purchasing farms of one or two hundred acres apiece, adjacent to each other, may thus make up a little neighborhood of their own, which can sustain its own school, and which will be sure to form the nucleus for further accretions from the North.
Reid suggests that small groups of families can create sustainable communities in the South.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.
I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.