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not get any of our rights but for you Lt, I do not know what we would do if you were to go away- and this man is as sober, industrious and law abiding as any man in the Co. A man has just reported to me that his employer had ordered his wife to leave. and said he would not pay her for the time she had worked. The offence was [[strikethrough]] like [[/strikethrough]] this. The employer's wife called the woman a "dirty slut". She replied that she was not. When the gentle saxon "let out her left" and dress the [[?]] from the African's nose. Yet the white man will put such a constriction upon it, that it will be difficult to obtain her pay from a civil magistrate. This is the second case of the kind that has been reported within two days. It is my impression that they will increase as the season advances. Employers will seek pretexts for dismissing a part of their laborers as soon as the crops are in such condition that their services can
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