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upon inquiry in such cases I have found that the employers, for small wages, required much more labor performed than they were ever in the habit of exacting before the negroes were free. The Whites in this county who are paying the highest prices for the labor of the Freedmen, seem in every instance perfectly satisfied with the amount and manner in which it is performed

Those Freedmen who are cultivating land in shares are very industrious, and ambitious to raise good crops, and the owners of the land seem well pleased with them

Many people among the whites seem unwilling to allow the Freedmen any equality of speech whatever. They will make charges of various kinds against the freedmen and they seem to think because they are white that the negro must not be allowed to contradict them in his own vindication, and the general disposition among the whites is to keep the Freedmen under, and more or less dependent

Some of the whites tell the freedmen they will be reduced to slavery in two or three years and advise them to go back at once to their

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