The negroes would not go near it; and, in truth, I have lately used it for a stable."-- _Hon.

N.Nugent_.
"Though the laborers on both the estates under my management have been considerably reduced since freedom, yet the grounds have never been in a finer state of cultivation, than they are at present.

When my work is backward, I give it out in jobs, and it is always done in half the usual time." "Emancipation has almost wholly put an end to the practice of _skulking_, or pretending to be sick.

That was a thing which caused the planter a vast deal of trouble during slavery.

Every Monday morning regularly, when I awoke, I found ten or a dozen, or perhaps twenty men and women, standing around my door, waiting for me to make my first appearance, and begging that I would let them off from work that day on account of sickness.