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Virginia Vignettes
ers turned to “roll your own” cigarettes. Studies of Richmond unemployed showed a high rate of illness, debt, and emotional problems among their families, many of whose members had turned to begging, excessive drinking, and criminal activity, even prostitution. Agricultural agent John Freeman recollected: “People were in a daze—shock actually. There was not much unrest, but had steps not been taken, the situation could have become chaotic.”
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