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Disposition to Labor
The Freedmen are all at work. I do not know of an able bodied Freedman idle in these two counties. I have been informed by several gentlemen, that their laborers are working excellent, I have always found those employers who pay their hands liberally and treat them humanely that those gentlemen, never have any trouble with them, and are seldom if ever before the Asst. Supndt, While on the other hand, that class of employers who are continually grumbling and quarrelling with their hands, are those, who take every possible advantage of the freedmen, who knowing this fact, cannot have any trust, or confidence in such employers, and consequently do not labor for them, as earnestly as they would for others. On an average three fourths of the freedmen are employed on plantations, and one fourth working small tracts of lands for themselves, 

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