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It is, rather, a copy of that England of the early nineteenth century, before the factory acts,—the England that wrung pity from thinkers and fired the wrath of Carlyle.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Here, Du Bois draws a parallel between the economic conditions of the New South and early nineteenth-century England, emphasizing exploitation.
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