On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
For the hum of the cotton-mills is the newest and most significant thing in the New South to-day.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “For the hum of the cotton-mills is the newest and most significant thing in the New South to-day.”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois observes the rise of cotton mills as a defining economic shift in the post-Reconstruction South.
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