There is little or no prostitution among these Negroes, and over three-fourths of the families, as found by house-to-house investigation, deserve to be classed as decent people with considerable regard for female chastity.
Du Bois asserts the relative decency and moral standing of many Black families in his analysis.
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Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.
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