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1  They used to have a certain magnificent barbarism about them that I liked.
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2  Then the false slime closing about them called the white men from the east.
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3  The blackboard had grown by about two feet, and the seats were still without backs.
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4  From such schools about two thousand Negroes have gone forth with the bachelor's degree.
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5  We shall hardly induce black men to believe that if their stomachs be full, it matters little about their brains.
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6  Still, settlers fought shy of this land, for the Indians were all about, and they were unpleasant neighbors in those days.
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7  It was about ten in the morning, bright with a faint breeze, and we jogged leisurely southward in the valley of the Flint.
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8  There was Sam Carlon, an impudent old skinflint, who had definite notions about "niggers," and hired Ben a summer and would not pay him.
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9  All are sprinkled in little groups over the face of the land, centering about some dilapidated Big House where the head-tenant or agent lives.
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10  The dwellings were scattered rather aimlessly, but they centred about the twin temples of the hamlet, the Methodist, and the Hard-Shell Baptist churches.
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11  The former masters of the land were peremptorily ordered about, seized, and imprisoned, and punished over and again, with scant courtesy from army officers.
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12  She had about her a certain fineness, the shadow of an unconscious moral heroism that would willingly give all of life to make life broader, deeper, and fuller for her and hers.
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13  We had come to the boundaries of Dougherty, and were about to turn west along the county-line, when all these sights were pointed out to us by a kindly old man, black, white-haired, and seventy.
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14  Oglethorpe thought slavery against law and gospel; but the circumstances which gave Georgia its first inhabitants were not calculated to furnish citizens over-nice in their ideas about rum and slaves.
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15  It is not difficult now to say to the young freedman, cheated and cuffed about who has seen his father's head beaten to a jelly and his own mother namelessly assaulted, that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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16  For a radius of a hundred miles about Albany, stretched a great fertile land, luxuriant with forests of pine, oak, ash, hickory, and poplar; hot with the sun and damp with the rich black swamp-land; and here the corner-stone of the Cotton Kingdom was laid.
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17  So skilfully and so closely has he drawn the bonds of the law about the tenant, that the black man has often simply to choose between pauperism and crime; he "waives" all homestead exemptions in his contract; he cannot touch his own mortgaged crop, which the laws put almost in the full control of the land-owner and of the merchant.
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