If, therefore, it is impossible in any single land to uplift permanently skilled labor without also raising common labor, so, too, there can be no permanent uplift of American or European labor as long as African laborers are slaves.
Du Bois asserts that the uplift of skilled labor is interconnected with the liberation of common labor, highlighting a global perspective on labor rights.
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