On the record
Negro labor toils and produces without adequate reward or protection against the rapacity of Southern employers.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Negro labor toils and produces without adequate reward or protection against the rapacity of Southern employers.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké highlights the exploitation of Black laborers in the South without fair compensation.
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Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.
It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.