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PART TWO VIRGIN LAND AND SERVILE LABOR

What these men of slow voices and leisurely bearing and great capacity for intimate personal relationships and inbred fondness for power stood for at Washington was not slavery alone, not cotton and rice and sugar-cane alone, not agriculture alone, but the whole social organism, the whole civilization …

■ WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN

The Lower South in American History