On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom,—the shadow of a marvellous dream.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois reflects on the legacy of the antebellum South's economic system and its diminished reality after the Civil War.
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