Only the moral sense of a community can keep helpless labor from sinking to this level; and when a community has once been debauched by slavery, its moral sense offers little resistance to economic demand.
Du Bois emphasizes the importance of a community's moral sense in preventing exploitation and the degradation of labor.
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