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The personal degradation of their work is so great that any white man of decency would rather cut his daughter's throat than let her grow up to such a destiny.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “The personal degradation of their work is so great that any white man of decency would rather cut his daughter's throat…”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois condemns the degrading nature of certain work that Black individuals were forced into.
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