SD783. Samuel Moulton-Barrett (uncle) to Unidentified Correspondent

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 328 (in part).

[Cinnamon Hill]

16 December 1834

I never was half so confident as I am now of the peaceable disposition of the negroes. I never knew them so greedy for money—so industriously anxious to earn it. I enclose you the proofs upon which I ground this opinion, and I could send you many others.

Upon my own properties, with certain exceptions, I should say the new system worked comparatively well; that is, not better than the old plan, but very much better than I expected.

Text: Marks, pp. 445–446.

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