It had the Negro’s labour, heretofore for nothing, and now it has it for next to nothing and at the same time is freed from the obligation to take care of the young and the aged, the sick and the decrepit.
He points out the exploitation of Black labor, which benefits the South without any responsibility for the workers' welfare.
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