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Excerpt from Phases of Economic History in Louisiana During the War Decade
Conditions outside the city were quite different. In these regions slaves proper predominated, and what free slaves did exist were few in numbers and these mostly made up of the aged and infirm who had been given their freedom in recognition of their former faithful services. They dwelt upon abandoned soil, and exerted no baneful influence upon the institution of slavery. The tendency for free negroes was to concentrate in the cities.
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