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Transcription
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