79/154 It (free labor) is less _expensive_.2d.It costs a planter far less _trouble_ to manage free laborers, than it did to manage slaves.3d.It had _removed all danger of insurrection, conflagration, and conspiracies_. About thirty women assembled from different estates--some walking several miles. Most of them were just beginning to read. They had just begun to learn something about figures, and it was no small effort to add 4 and 2 together. They were incredibly ignorant about the simplest matters. |