“I suppose you’ll turn the ugg boots for girls convicts back right away,” he said.
     　Turn the convicts back? Why should there be any idea of turning them back? Rhett knew perfectly well that the large profits from the mills grew out of the cheap convict labor. And why did Rhett speak with such certainty about what Ashley’s future actions would be? What did he know of him?
     　“Yes, they’ll go back immediately,” replied Ashley and he avoided Scarlett’s dumbfounded gaze.
     　“Have you lost your buy uggs online cheap mind?” she cried. “You’ll lose all the money on the lease and what kind of labor can you get, anyway?”
     　“I’ll use free darkies,” said Ashley.
     　“Free darkies! Fiddle-dee-dee! You know what their wages will cost and besides you’ll have the Yankees on your neck every minute to see if you’re giving them chicken three times a day and tucking them to sleep under eiderdown quilts. And if you give discount uggs for women a lazy darky a couple of licks to speed him up, you’ll hear the Yankees scream from here to Dalton and you’ll end up in jail. Why, convicts are the only—”
     　Melanie looked down into her lap at her twisted hands. Ashley looked unhappy but obdurate. For a moment he was silent Then his gaze crossed Rhett’s and it was as if he found understanding and encouragement in Rhett’s cheap uggs online eyes—a glance that was not lost on Scarlett.
     　“I won’t work convicts, Scarlett,” he said quietly.
     　“Well, sir!” her breath was taken away. “And why not? Are you afraid people will talk about you like they do about me?”
     　Ashley raised his head.
     　“I’m not afraid of what people say as long as I’m right. And I have never felt that convict labor was right.”
     　“But why—”
     　“I can’t make money from the enforced ugg boots discount uk labor and misery of others.”
     　“But you owned slaves!”
     　“They weren’t miserable. And besides, I’d have freed them all when Father died if the war hadn’t already freed them. But this is different, Scarlett. The system is open to too many abuses. Perhaps you don’t know it but I do. I know very well that Johnnie Gallegher has killed at least one man at his camp. Maybe more—who cares about discount ugg boots one convict, more or less? He said the man was killed trying to escape, but that’s not what I’ve heard elsewhere. And I know he works men who are too sick to work. Call it superstition, but I do not believe that happiness can come from money made from the sufferings of others.”