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Then follows a hard chase around among the frightened cattle. Fifteen or twenty riders are soon in hot pursuit of their several brands. The whole herd is in commotion, with a general wheeling movement like a slow Maelstrom. The cattle are "ginning around," they say. The din of a thousand bellowing voices grows more thunderous as the herd grows more uneasy.
The Negro works in cotton, and has no trouble so long as his labour is confined to the lower forms of work, the planting, the picking, and the ginning; but, when the Negro attempts to follow the bale of cotton up through the higher stages, through the mill where it is made into the finer fabrics, where the larger profit appears, he is told that he is not wanted.
Influence of Northern and Southern Men Contrasted. An Increase of Numbers. "Ginning" Cotton. In the Lint-Room. Mills and Machinery of a Plantation. A Profitable Enterprise. On each of the plantations the negroes were at work in the cotton-field. I rode from one to the other, as circumstances made it necessary, and observed the progress that was made.
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