He muttered to me with the murmur of many ages, when he said: “White man sit down whole year; Nigger work day and night and make crop; Nigger hardly gits bread and meat; white man sittin’ down gits all.
Du Bois quotes a Black laborer expressing the injustice of their situation compared to white landowners.
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