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As a result the Negro women outnumber the men nine or ten to eight in many cities, making what Charlotte Gilman bluntly calls "cheap women.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois comments on the demographic imbalance between African American men and women in urban areas, linking it to economic factors.
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