On the record
This is the measure of our rise, but the Negro will not approach freedom until this hateful badge of slavery and mediaevalism has been reduced to less than 10 per cent.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois argues that the true measure of progress for Black individuals is tied to the reduction of servitude.
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