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Chapter 17 THE PLANTATION NEGROS-NOT STUPID TO BE LOYAL-THEIR DITHYRAMBIC MUSIC -COPPERHEAD OPINION OF LONGFELLOW.

The stockade was not quite finished at the time of our arrival-a gap of several hundred feet appearing at the southwest corner. A gang of about two hundred negros were at work felling trees, hewing legs, and placing them upright in the trenches. We had an opportunity-soon to disappear forever-of studying the workings of the "peculiar institution" i

            
            

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