Chapter 7: Of the Black Belt
If you wish to ride with me you must come into the 'Jim Crow Car.' There will be no objection,---already four other white men have ridden in it this morning.Read in Books4Free →
Of the Black Belt and the Quest of the Golden Fleece
From The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois's sociological travelogue through rural Georgia documenting peonage, debt, and the persistence of plantation conditions after slavery.
Chapter 8: Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
Exposes the crop-lien and tenant system that re-enslaved freedmen economically: 'How curious a land is this,---how full of untold story, of tragedy and laughter.'
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