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He was on the Joe 1’eieis” three daysand three nights, in company with onehundred Irishmen and one iiundred negroes, who were being taken by a contractor to certuin public works. In all the long three days, the slave drivers gave their white laborer* but one meal, and that a most disgusting one, consist ing of chunks of bread, coffee, and boiled beef. It was served in pans, the beef and the coffee being mixed together. And the negroes? Well, they got nothing at all, and when the boat stopped at a way station, the overseers would take positions on the gang-ways with clubs, ready to kuock down the poor half-starved fellows as they attempted toleave, knowing that they would not come back. But this was a mere incident.It is the system, the licensed swindling, by which the few grow rich, by the robbing the many, that excited his feelings. Penetrating into the countryt he found a handful of white merchants lording it over the black farmers, reduced by methodical robbery to the ownership of nothing but their land, in many cases compelled to depend upon the wild grapes and plums for their verysubsistence.
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Massillon Daily Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1888
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