On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
There is no use asking the black tenant, then, to diversify his crops,—he cannot under this system.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “There is no use asking the black tenant, then, to diversify his crops,—he cannot under this system.”
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From his analysis of the sharecropping system, on the inability of Black tenants to diversify their crops.
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