hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.. You can also browse the collection for Gradgrind or search for Gradgrind in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
y fair chance for salvation. That's a great comfort. The county is divided into 579 farms, valued, with improvements and implements, at $1,499,886; and containing 104,421 acres of improved, and 72,343 acres of unimproved land. It produced, when the last census was taken, 57,728 bushels of wheat, 59,549 of rye and oats, 161,248 of Indian corn; and 10,374 of Irish and sweet potatoes; 96,679 lbs. of butter and 2306 tons of hay, were the principal additional items in the list. So far Mr. Gradgrind. A Free colored farmer. The first person I met, after crossing the line, was a hearty old man of color, who was engaged in repairing his neighbor's fence. Yankee-like, the first sentence I uttered, on seeing him, was an interrogation. I asked him the price of land. lie said that a neighbor had recently bought a farm, adjoining his place, for $26 an acre. He would n't swap his even, no how, either as buyer or seller. If I wanted to buy, however, lie would sell me his farm, of o