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 -   I went into some of their
cottages on the estate which I visited, and was not in the least
surprised - Page 134
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I Went Into Some Of Their Cottages On The Estate Which I Visited, And Was Not In The Least Surprised To Find Them Preferable In Size, Furniture, And All Material Comforts To The Dwellings Of Most Of Our Own Agricultural Laborers.

Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous.

The Kentucky slave never wants for clothing fitted to the weather. He eats meat twice a day, and has three good meals; he knows no limit but his own appetite; his work is light; he has many varieties of amusement; he has instant medical assistance at all periods of necessity for himself, his wife, and his children. Of course he pays no rent, fears no baker, and knows no hunger. I would not have it supposed that I conceive slavery with all these comforts to be equal to freedom without them; nor do I conceive that the negro can be made equal to the white man. But in discussing the condition of the negro, it is necessary that we should understand what are the advantages of which abolition would deprive him, and in what condition he has been placed by the daily receipt of such advantages. If a negro slave wants new shoes, he asks for them, and receives them, with the undoubting simplicity of a child. Such a state of things has its picturesquely patriarchal side; but what would be the state of such a man if he were emancipated to-morrow?

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