Before the World War tendencies were strongly toward the destruction of independent Africa, the industrial slavery of the mass of the blacks and the encouragement of white immigration, where possible, to hold the blacks in subjection.
Du Bois discusses the pre-World War I trends threatening African independence and the plight of black populations.
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