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In traveling several hundred miles in the State, I did not see a white man at work in the fields, or very many at work anywhere or anyway.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “In traveling several hundred miles in the State, I did not see a white man at work in the fields, or very many at work…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid observes the lack of white labor in the fields of Mississippi during his travels, highlighting economic changes post-war.
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Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.
Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
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