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Other causes have been glibly given and other contributing causes there doubtless were, but they were subsidiary and subordinate to this vast quest of the dark world's wealth and toil.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois acknowledges other causes of the war but insists that the quest for wealth from colonized peoples was the main driver.
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