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"Why, you niggers have an easier time than I do," said a puzzled Albany merchant to his black customer. "Yes," he replied, "and so does yo' hogs."

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Du Bois has been describing the poverty and destitution of the Black Belt, and explained that white employers refuse to improve the working conditions of the black laborers they employ, claiming that this would lead to disaster. In this brief anecdote, he describes a white merchant who claims that black people have “an easier time than I do,” to which his black customer replies that yes, and so do the man’s pigs. This is an important moment in the book, as there are not many instances in which Du Bois records an exchange between a white and black person where…

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

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