Besides this, the chance for lawless oppression and illegal exactions is vastly greater in the country than in the city, and nearly all the more serious race disturbances of the last decade have arisen from disputes in the county between master and man,—as, for instance, the Sam Hose affair.
Du Bois argues that lawless oppression was more rampant in the rural South than in cities, leading to significant race disturbances stemming from labor disputes.
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