A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853 1854 With Remarks On T
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853 1854 With Remarks On T
Frederick Law Olmsted
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' He also employs, at present, four Irish hands, and is expecting two more to arrive, who have been recommended to him, and sent for by those he has. He pays the Irish- men $120 a year, and boards them. He has had them for $100; but these are all excellent men, and well worth their price. They are less given to drinking than any men he has ever had; and one of them first suggested improvements to him in his farm, that he is now carrying out with prospects of considerable advan- Virginia 1 1 1 t...age. House-maids, Irish girls, he pays $3 and $6 a month. ^ He does not apprehend that in future he shall have any difficulty in obtaining steady and reliable men, that will accomplish much more work than any slaves. There are some operations, such as carting and spread- ing dung, and all work with the fork, spade, or shovel, at which his Irishmen will do, he thinks, over fifty per cent, more in a day than any negroes he has ever known. On the whole, he is satisfied that at present free-labor is more profitable than slave-labor, though his success is not so evident that he would be willing to have attention particularly called to it.
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