Northern capital and enterprise, which are exploiting the South industrially, assimilate very readily the Southern view of the Negro, who must be kept at the bottom of the white man's labor system and civilization.
Grimké addresses the complicity of Northern capitalists in perpetuating Southern racial views.
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