On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
But a change is coming, and slowly but surely even here the agricultural laborers are drifting to town and leaving the broad acres behind.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This statement observes the inevitable shift of agricultural laborers from rural areas to towns, even in places where they had previously found security.
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