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my defence. The plantation on which the Plaintiffs labored I rented expressly for them, my own place joined it. I worked about an equal force on both places. On the rented place I cultivated three hundred and fifty acres of cotton, and eighty acres of corn, the land is good and fresh and considered very productive. The result of the year's work was thirty seven light bales of cotton and two hundred and ninety bushels of corn. On my own place, about the same quality of land, and with fifty acres less in cotton, I made sixty two bales of cotton and a fair crop of corn for the year. The difference is easily explained. On my own place the Freedmen worked well, were settled with before Christmas & every body was satisfied and contented. On the rented place the Hands did not work, they made nothing