. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. AMK BELLUM LIFE IN THE OED SOUTH. IO5 generally kept fairly clean. All the slaves had to work whenthey were able to do so, but at no other time, and they allknew they would be cared for in old age and in old negroes were much respected, and each one wouldhave his little cabin, and perhaps a garden, and there, withhis family about him, would pass his last days in of the negroes would spend their evenings and holi-days in hunting; others would work a little plot of gardenand produce s
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. AMK BELLUM LIFE IN THE OED SOUTH. IO5 generally kept fairly clean. All the slaves had to work whenthey were able to do so, but at no other time, and they allknew they would be cared for in old age and in old negroes were much respected, and each one wouldhave his little cabin, and perhaps a garden, and there, withhis family about him, would pass his last days in of the negroes would spend their evenings and holi-days in hunting; others would work a little plot of gardenand produce something and thus earn a little extra money,which would be expended in any way they desired. Well regulated plantations were generally in the immedi-ate control of the owner, but if he chanced to be a profes-sional man, fond of travel or otherwise engaged away fromhome, he employed an overseer. There was a wagon shopon nearly every plantation. Wagons had wooden axles andwere lubricated with pine tar made in a tar kiln. In thesmithshop they used charcoal made in a coal kiln. Col-lars for mules w
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