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The fact that the parents take care of the wages which their children earn, shows their provident disposition.
We were informed that the mothers usually take charge of the money paid to their children, especially their daughters, and this, in order to teach them proper subordination, and to provide against casualties, sickness, and the infirmities of age. 7th.
The fact that the negroes are able to support their aged parents, is further proof. As it regards the second specification, viz., _constitutional indolence_, we may refer generally to the evidence on this subject under a former proposition.
We will merely state here two facts. 1st.
Although the negroes are not obliged to work on Saturday, yet they are in the habit of going to estates that are weak-handed, and hiring themselves out on that day. 2d.
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