CHAPTER XXXV.
OUR FREE-LABOR ENTERPRISE IN PROGRESS.
The Negroes at Work .-- Difficulties in the Way .-- A Public Meeting .-- A Speech .-- A Negro's Idea of Freedom .-- A Difficult Question to Determine .-- Influence of Northern and Southern Men Contrasted .-- An Increase of Numbers.--"Ginning" Cotton .-- In the Lint-Room .-- Mills and Machinery of a Plantation .-- A Profitable Enterprise..