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Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen… (1864)

Gilmore's big guns on Morris Island, surrounded by camps, with no civil law, and without the help of the able-bodied men, who were all pressed into the military service, leaving the plantations with none but old men, women and children. I have no paupers, all the old and infirm being fed and clothed by their friends and children.
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Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen… (1864)

Philbrick became the purchaser, at the Government sale for taxes, of thirteen plantations, which he has since conducted, with the result given below. Mr. Philbrick has treated the blacks with great humanity, giving them liberal wages, and paying for the support of teachers out of his own funds.
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