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great rights and privileges such as they never enjoyed in the condition of slavery, they have also great responsibilities and duties resting upon them. These visits and explanations have been productive of great good, as without a single exception, on every plantation which I have visited they are now better satisfied and doing better than they did before- I have of course found a few who were constitutionally stubborn and disposed to disregard their contracts and inclined to annoy their employers by neglect of duty and by insolent and disrespectful deportment- but in most of these cases I have found that these difficulties grow out of the inability of the employer to manage them as out of attempts to take advantage of the Freedmen in various ways- As a general thing wherever they are treated justly they give but little cause for complaint.

These complaints whether they come from the employer or laborer are all carefully investigated and 

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