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Perhaps this is he,—the sweating ploughman, tilling his eighty acres with two lean mules, and fighting a hard battle with debt.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois highlights the struggles of a black farmer working hard to maintain his land amidst economic challenges.
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