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285. William Henry Heyward to James B. Heyward -- April 17, 1866

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Letter from William Henry Heyward at Savannah to James B. Heyward at Combahee. William Heyward has come to the conclusion that the destruction of slave labor will prevent them from ever turning a profit again on the scale seen in the past. He claims that the bargaining power exercised by the freedmen "makes the Planter a slave, far worse than his slave used to be." Because of the scarcity and high price of labor he believes that he and James should sell most of their properties and concentrate all their efforts on a few. 4p. April 17, 1866.
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  1. Freedmen
  2. Plantation Life
  3. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  4. Rice
  5. South Carolina

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