 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - Mississippi - 1835 - 304 pages
...as this is easily ascertained, it is not difficult to form a prompt estimate of individual wealth. To sell cotton in order to buy negroes — to make...aim and direct tendency of all the operations of the thorough-going cotton planter ; his whole soul is wrapped up in the pursuit. It is, apparently, the... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - Mississippi - 1835 - 306 pages
...as this is easily ascertained, it is not difficult to form a prompt estimate of individual wealth. To sell cotton in order to buy negroes — to make...aim and direct tendency of all the operations of the thorough-going cotton planter; his whole soul is wrapped up in the pursuit. It is, apparently, the... | |
 | Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1907 - 1030 pages
...$50,000 and live in a style commensurate with their wealth. ... To sell cotton in order to buy more negroes — to make more cotton to buy more negroes,...aim and direct tendency of all the operations of the thorough-going cotton planter; his whole soul is wrapped up in the pursuit. There are some who work... | |
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To sell cotton in order to buy negroes — to make more cotton to buy more negroes, " ad infinitum," is the aim and direct tendency of all the operations of the thorough-going cotton planter ; his whole soul is wrapped up in the pursuit. It is, apparently,... 
