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Black and White, by Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Title: Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
Author: Timothy Thomas Fortune
Release Date: October 7, 2005 [EBook #16810]
Language: English
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BLACK AND WHITE
LAND, LABOR, and POLITICS in the SOUTH
By
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE
1884
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
In discussing the political and industrial problems of the South, I base my conclusions upon a personal knowledge of the condition of classes in the South, as well as upon the ample data furnished by writers who have pursued, in their way, the question before me. That the colored people of the country will yet achieve an honorable status in the national industries of thought and activity, I believe, and try to make plain.
In discussion of the land and labor problem I but pursue the theories advocated by more able and experienced men, in the attempt to show that the laboring classes of any country pay all the taxes, in the last analysis, and that they are systematically victimized by legislators, corporations and syndicates.
Wealth, unduly centralized,