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than when in slavery - they do not keep as clean and tidy as when they were slaves - I practice medicine, and frequently go into their houses. 

Our freedmen are hardly fair representatives of the freedmen generally they were badly spoiled by mismanagement while slaves - Dr Dennis is a man of standing and education.

Dr. J. D. Spragins, living ten miles southwest of Charlotte C.H.

1 I have 635 acres. 350 in cultivation.
3 I employ ten hands - seven formerly my slaves - All my slaves some thirty in number remain with me
4 I raise corn, oats, wheat and Tobacco
5 My Freedmen work as well as ever they did-Did the same last year
7 I give them part of the crop, and supply them with necessaries-It is the better system
9 I am planting 70 acres in corn and 120 000 tobacco plants
11 My women have agreed to work on the tobacco crop-They are generally at work at something indoors
13 Home government not very good
15 No theft
17 No renters. It is a bad place-
20 None of mine want to go - Some who went away are coming back
21 They have very strong local attachments - It is characteristic
22 Entirely so, Mine never were more so - It is always so where negroes were formerly treated as human beings
23 No schools
24 The feeling is improving-generally kind-The negroes