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has ten customers to the white mail's one ? 

 and both buyer and seller have a share in 

 the produce. I have stood to watch a negro 

 who was selling potatoes for me ; and he 

 has taken seven and sixpence per bushel 

 for them, and accounted with me for six 

 shillings per bushel. The negroes are very 

 much employed in the sale of hay, and all 

 farming produce in America ; and they are 

 all fond of liquor, and generally return 

 drunk from market* I observed the stable- 

 keepers, .when they bought a load of hay, 

 to .take the negro to seme distance from 

 company. I have watched or listened; 

 and. the negro always agreed for a bottle of 

 rum .or whisky for himself. When I first 

 went into the country, it astonished me 

 how these negroes got. so drunk, or how 

 they got money as slaves ; for they seemed 

 to Jive as freely as any other set of men in 

 the farmer's house, or where they are kept. 

 They are fond of their victuals hot, and 

 will seldom eat any thing cold, if they 

 can avoid it, but lay it on the fire to 



