As I stated in my written reply to your submitted questions, we work but few white laborers in my section of the country.

Why?
Because they soon become land-owners with the opportunities which present themselves to them.

The white men will not be there more than two or three years before he has bought and paid for his land in almost every instance.
By the CHAIRMAN: Q.And he becomes an employer himself?
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He becomes an employer himself.
Q.Does he usually locate upon the plantation lands along the rivers?
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No, sir; he cannot buy this land, because the planter would not divide a large plantation into tracts; he would not sell off a portion of his land without selling the whole.
Q.In how large tracts are the plantations held?
Just mention the acreage of some of them that you are acquainted with.
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