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Black people, immigrants & the uneducated native white workers. It was these people whose labor was exploited and whose lives were sacrificed by the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts—by the new class of monopoly capitalists who were ruthlessly establishing their industrial empires.

Terror & violence compelled Black workers in the South to accept slavelike wages and working conditions that were frequently worse than slavery.