Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER XII.
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Personal Appearance of Epps--Epps, Drunk and Sober--A Glimpse
of his History--Cotton Growing--The Mode of Ploughing and
Preparing Ground--Of Planting, of Hoeing, of Picking, of
Treating Raw Hands--The difference in Cotton Pickers--Patsey
a remarkable one--Tasked according to Ability--Beauty of a
Cotton Field--The Slave's Labors--Fear of Approaching the
Gin-House--Weighing--"Chores"--Cabin Life--The Corn Mill--The Uses
of the Gourd--Fear of Oversleeping--Fear continually--Mode of
Cultivating Corn--Sweet Potatoes--Fertility of the Soil--Fattening
Hogs--Preserving Bacon--Raising Cattle--Shooting-Matches--Garden
Products--Flowers and Verdure, 162
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