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" ... a frolic at night. He did not think they ever did half a fair day's work. They could not be made to work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have... "
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of ... - Page 307
by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - 1918 - 529 pages
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 766 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to nuke them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Mr. W. also said that he cultivated only the coarser and lower-priced sorts of tobacco, because...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1856 - 760 pages
...work hard: they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...without putting strength into them. They keep their power? in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Mr. W. also said that he cultivated only the...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 756 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Mr. W. also said that he cultivated only the coarser and lower-priced sorts of tobacco, because...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - Slavery - 1861 - 774 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for then- own use at night, perhaps. Mr, W. also said that he cultivated only the coarser and lower-priced...
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and ..., Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 398 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...at work — they seem to go through the motions of labour without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night,...
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THE COTTON KINGDOM

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 388 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen...at work — they seem to go through the motions of labour without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night,...
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted - Cotton growing - 1861 - 406 pages
...what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work — they seem to go through the motions of labour without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Mr. W. also said that ho cultivated only the coarser and lower-priced sorts of tobacco, because...
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Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's ..., Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - Cotton growing - 1861 - 394 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work—they seem to go through the motions of labour without putting strength into them. They keep...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1861 - 750 pages
...work hard: they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work—they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their...
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the cotton kingdom

frederick law olmsted - 1862 - 384 pages
...work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work—they seem to go through the motions of labour without putting strength into them. They keep...
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