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Men approached the negro with an effort at kind manners; described to him the comforts of their plantations, and insinuatingly inquired if he wouldn’t like to enter into contract for a year.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid illustrates the attempts of planters to attract freedmen back to work on plantations with offers of comfort.
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