On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
The men who conduct such farms do not long remain renters; either they sink to metayers, or with a successful series of harvests rise to be land-owners.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
This passage from "The Souls of Black Folk" describes the unstable economic position of renters, who either decline or ascend to landownership.
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