Hence it is seen that the dependence of the planters, land-owners, and old master-class of the South upon the negro, however galling and humiliating to Southern pride and power, is nearly complete and perfect.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts the South's continued reliance on Black labor after the Civil War.
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