On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
The Wizard of the North—the Capitalist—had rushed down in the seventies to woo this coy dark soil.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “The Wizard of the North—the Capitalist—had rushed down in the seventies to woo this coy dark soil.”
Editor's note · Context
From his seminal work, this passage describes the post-Reconstruction economic exploitation of the American South by Northern capitalists.
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