[T]hat everywhere on the plantations, the agrarian notion has become a fixed point of the negro system of ethics: that the result of labor belongs of right to the laborer.… They [slaves] almost universally pilfer from the household store when they have a safe opportunity.
SOURCE: Frederick Law Olmstead, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States.
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