On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
And yet on two-thirds of the land there is but one crop, and that leaves the toilers in debt.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “And yet on two-thirds of the land there is but one crop, and that leaves the toilers in debt.”
Editor's note · Context
From his seminal work on Black American life, Du Bois observes the economic trap of single-crop agriculture for Black laborers in the South.
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