Beyond the Mississippi : from the great river to the great ocean : life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast (1869)
Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869 · Hartford, Cn. : American Pub. Co. · leaf 250
s the most profitable business in the world ; the planters don’t raise any thing else except a few sweet potatoes, but buy all their provisions. Picking cotton is the great thing. A woman will pick faster than a man, but a child twelve years old will frequently beat them both. It can’t be learned'… … horns — a ludicrous form of the THE CHURCH-GOING BELL. church-going bell. Many negroes had bought their freedom, and some had acquired considerable property. Several laundresses and nurses first re¬ deemed themselves, and then their husbands and children. But
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