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fan them for hours at a time and in every way they could, administer to the afflicted one, and now, thease very same negroes, they care for, by my wife in her life time, and by her Daughter since her death, are as inpudent to my Daughter as they possibly can be, and make use of all kind of vulgar and obsean expressions in their presents, indeed they are so vulgar, and impudent, that is it very unpleasant for my white family to live on the place with them. Not withstanding, all this, and altho, seven of the best workers left the place, in the month of July and left only one old man, three old women, three idle youngsters, and ten children, on the place, and amidst all these inpudences, vulgarity, idleness, and old age, I have let them remain on the place, and have done the best I could for them, and they are yet here, but do not thank me for anything I have done for them, since they have been free, or at any time of their lives. They are an unthankful, ungreatful race of beings, and he who tries them will always find them so, you may feed them on pound cake and butter, every day and they will not thank you for it,
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