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not worth cultivation. I would rather have 

 one hundred acres than one hundred thou- 

 sand ; for the price of labour being very- 

 high, and the produce so small, if I was 

 compelled to live in that country I would 

 not wish to have more than myself and 

 my family could cultivate, and woodland 

 for fire, — for all the white men I employed 

 there ate much and worked little. And 

 it is allowed by every experienced man in 

 America, that no man can work a farm at 

 all to get a living upon it but by slaves ; 

 and the cause is, the black man or slave is 

 both clothed and fed at a less expence than 

 a white man ; therefore it shows plainly 

 where the livelihood is got out of that poor 

 soil — it is pinched and screwed out of the 

 negro. 



When I was in America, I was requested 

 by all the Englishmen whom I knew, to 



