Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER XV.
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Labors on Sugar Plantations--The Mode of Planting Cane--of
Hoeing Cane--Cane Ricks--Cutting Cane--Description of the Cane
Knife--Winrowing--Preparing for Succeeding Crops--Description of
Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Boeuf--The Christmas Holidays--The
Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage--The Christmas
Supper--Red, the Favorite Color--The Violin, and the Consolation
it afforded--The Christmas Dance--Lively, the Coquette--Sam
Roberts, and his Rivals--Slave Songs--Southern Life as it
is--Three Days in the Year--The System of Marriage--Uncle Abram's
Contempt of Matrimony, 208
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