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It is said the negroes cannot raise this article only in large gangs and under overseers:  But we found many small, patches, and where the fileds were large the negroes joined together, and tilling them to great advantage. - Four miles from Georgetown S.C. there is a large plantation on which one hundred and sixty colored men have been thus at work.  They have 250 acres of rice, 250 acres of corn and about an equal number of acres in other crops - all well cultivated and looking finely.  One of the smartest is chosen Superintendent, and they work kindly together as a joint stock company.

On St. Helena two or three hundred have bought small farms of 10 or 15 acres each at the sales of the tax commissioner - built their houses thereon, and their little homesteads are well kept, having an air of comfort.

One man, a slave at the beginning of the war, who became the servant of a Yankee Officer, bought 315 acres - This he has now paid for, with many improvements.  He showed me, with pride, the Gin-house he has erected, with it machinery - 12 cows - 4 horses - 20 swine - chickens, he said "Jenney", (his wife) "would have to tell me the number

Then he took me to look at 60 acres of the finest