Field Notebook: Alabama
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Meridian Miss. Such a merciable upon as this I never saw. The houses all low, extremely ily built and no thrift on any side to be seen. The clothes or the people very simple, poor quality and fits not very clean. However every one seem to be polite. The negroes live in the product of huts, log houses set on four posts or stumps of trees. The quantity of selling negroes the color is simply astonishing and despicable one may find the words can the loosener of the negro women. If the talk of the whites can be believed there is no morality in any negress. Mississippi upon the whole [illegible] can not show that where