. Highways and byways of the South. ilver. If this sum amounts to as much as ahundred dollars, the lucky capitalist is regarded by hisfellows as a millionnaire. In the towns many littlestores are owned by negroes, the majority, perhaps,with only about a wheelbarrow load of stock, but . . ? !> Others that in size and equipment are all that could beasked. The better ones are often patronized by whitesas well as blacks. I was everywhere informed that the young negroeswere less to be trusted than the older ones who startedlife as slaves. No doubt this is true of a portion ofthem, and naturally
. Highways and byways of the South. ilver. If this sum amounts to as much as ahundred dollars, the lucky capitalist is regarded by hisfellows as a millionnaire. In the towns many littlestores are owned by negroes, the majority, perhaps,with only about a wheelbarrow load of stock, but . . ? !> Others that in size and equipment are all that could beasked. The better ones are often patronized by whitesas well as blacks. I was everywhere informed that the young negroeswere less to be trusted than the older ones who startedlife as slaves. No doubt this is true of a portion ofthem, and naturally the servility the white man likeshas become less common. The negro youth will nolonger cheerfully spend half a day doing a white manssmall jobs for a ham bone or a drink of whiskey. Ihave a vivid remembrance of the anger of a Virginia 1when a young colored woman did not accept 1proper meekness some advice he gave her. She WrSat the back door of the hotel trying to sharpen a stic*:with an axe. You blankety-blanked nigger, said^^. Watering the Plants
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