This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.
Grimké asserts that the plight of the Negro laborer in the South is accurately described by the systemic inequalities they face.
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