Carolina QuotesIf labor is withdrawn capital will not remain. The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Ida B. Wells Connected to the Carolinas
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- Southern Horrors and Other Writings (1892)
- year
- 1892
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“If labor is withdrawn capital will not remain. The Afro-Amer…” Ida B. Wells. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-74904651CB. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/74904651cb
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