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undefined "accommodation" in addition to working the crop: by virtue of this he insists upon services which the freedman never intended to render: the latter refuses and leaves, while the employer harps once more loudly upon the old thing that "niggers won't work" Both honestly believe themselves to have been imposed upon. Feeling as they do, it is not to be wondered at that the whites yield to the very strong temptation to, and opportunity for, taking an undue advantage of the ignorant laboring class.

As might be imagined the freedmen are deeply dissatisfied - little is said, but this feeling is general and strong: they believe their former owners are opposed to their getting ahead: they realize how small is their chance. The whites on the other hand are very gloomy: with their vast tracts of land and cheap available labor, they are prostrate and discouraged: their lands are half cultivated, and little attended to by the owners, who, with some exceptions, offer bad examples of industry and thrift to the colored people, the indolence and thriftlessness of whom is constantly reproached by those who ought to and could lead them 

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