Field Notebook: Alabama
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Meridian Miss. Such a conceivible upon an thru I never saw. The house all low, extremely ill built and no thrift on any side to be seen. The clothes on the people very simple, of poor quality and often not very clean. However every one seem to be polite. The negroes live in the product of huts, log houses set on four sticks or stumps of trees. The quantity of yellow negroes the color is simply astounding and despise one plays the word can the loosener of the negro women. If the talk of the shits can be believed there is no morality in any negro. Mississippi upon the whole is a very simple state. The climate over to show that where