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Excerpt from Reconstruction in Georgia, Vol. 64: Economic, Social, Political; 1865-1872 I. Attempt of planters to continue the old system 2. Supervision of labor contracts 3. Conditions in Southwest Georgia. 4. Wages in 1865 5. Difficulties in money and share systems of payment. 6. Standard of wages set by the Freedmen's Bureau 7. Labor troubles 8. Negro land owners. 9. Negro tenants. Io. The negro family as an industrial unit 11. Exodus of negro women from field labor 12. Failure of crops in 1865 - 1866. 13. Credit system I4. Beginning of the break-up of plantations 15. Emigration and immigration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.