Down in such mire has the black motherhood of this race struggled,--starving its own wailing offspring to nurse to the world their swaggering masters; welding for its children chains which affronted even the moral sense of an unmoral world.
Du Bois highlights the sacrifices made by Black mothers in a society that exploits them.
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