Assertion: slave | /r/HasProperty | lessened
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text: When, towards the end of the century, planters adapted rice cultivation to the tide-flow, which allowed the fields along certain rivers to be inundated with fresh water when the tides came in, the slaves’ work was lessened at weeding time because flooding inhibited the growth of weeds, but the method required larger levees and sluices and building of canals between fields to carry off the crop, all of which had to be maintained.