. The upward path : the evolution of a race . First Years of Freedom 95 .... It looked for many miles a broad,black streak of ruin and desolation—fencesgone, lonesome smokestacks surrounded bydark heaps of ashes and cinders, markingthe spot where human habitations hadstood, the fields along the road wildly over-grown by weeds, with here and there asickly looking patch of cotton or com, cul-tivated by Negro squatters. Even thoseregions which had been touched but littleor not at all by military operations werelaboring under dire distress. . Con-federate money had become a few indi
. The upward path : the evolution of a race . First Years of Freedom 95 .... It looked for many miles a broad,black streak of ruin and desolation—fencesgone, lonesome smokestacks surrounded bydark heaps of ashes and cinders, markingthe spot where human habitations hadstood, the fields along the road wildly over-grown by weeds, with here and there asickly looking patch of cotton or com, cul-tivated by Negro squatters. Even thoseregions which had been touched but littleor not at all by military operations werelaboring under dire distress. . Con-federate money had become a few individuals of more or lesswealth had been fortunate enough to save,and keep throughout the war, small hoardsof gold and silver. . The people maybe said to have been without a circulatingmedium to serve in the ordinary transac-tions of business. . United Statesmoney could not be had for anything; itcould only be obtained by selling somethingfor it in the shape of goods or of . They had of course very little tosell . . a
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