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Quotation from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings (Project Gutenberg text)
Du Bois describes the freedman's position after emancipation, entering into competition without land, tools or savings.
Citation: "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." — W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings (Project Gutenberg text). (id the-souls-of-black-folk-q3)
Portrait: W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907 (cropped), James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden, CC0.
