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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
1: Pike, "The Prostrate
State", pp. 3, 4. 2: "Spectator", LXVI, p. 113. 3: Frederick Douglass pointed out this
difficulty prior to the Civil War. See John Lobb's "Life and
Times of Frederick Douglass", p. 250. 4: Labor was then cheap in the South because
of its abundance and the foreign laborer had not then been
tried. 5: During these years Senator Morgan of
Alabama was endeavoring to arouse the people of the country
so as to make this a matter of national concern. 6: "Public Opinion", XVIII, p. 371. 7: "Ibid.", XVIII, p. 371. 8: Simmons, "Men of Mark", p. 817. 9: "Public Opinion", XVIII, pp. 370-371. 10: Because of these conditions the last
fifty years has been considered by some writers as a "dark
age," for the South. 11: The Negroes are now said to be worth
more than a billion dollars. Most of this property is in the
hands of southern Negroes. 12: "American Law Review", XL, pp. 29, 52,
205, 227, 354, 381, 547, 590, 695, 758, 865, 905. 13: No. 300. Original, October Term, 1910. 14: Hershaw, "Peonage", pp. 10-11. 15: These facts are well brought out by Dr.
Thomas Jesse Jones' recent report on Negro Education. 16: This is based on reports published
annually in the "Chicago Tribune". 17: This is the boast of southern men of
this type when speaking to their constituents or in
Congress. 18: "Report", October Term, 1917. 19: This danger has been often referred to
when the Negroes were first emancipated. See "Spectator",
LXVI, p. 113. 20: Compare the Negro population of
Northern States as given in the census of 1800 with the same
in 1900. 21: Hart, "Southern South", pp. 171, 172. 22: This is based on the experience of the
writer and others whom he has interviewed. 23: In his report on Negro education Dr.
Thomas Jesse Jones has shown this to be an actual fact. 24: Negroes applying for positions in the
South have the situation set before them so as to know what
to expect. 25: The "American Journal of Political
Economy", XXV, p. 1040. 26: The "Journal of Social Science", XI, p.
16. 27: "American Economic Review", IV, pp.
281-292. 28: Ford edition of "Jefferson's Writings",
X, p. 231.
