Negro labor could not in any considerable numbers leave the South voluntarily because Southern capital and landed interests would not let it, would resist by force if found necessary its migration to other parts.
Grimké discusses the economic constraints preventing African Americans from leaving the South, emphasizing systemic oppression.
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