Axelle⁷’s Reviews > Women, Race & Class > Status Update

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.

"Look at King Alfred and see what a great man he was. He at one time did not know his a,b,c, but before his death he commanded armies and nations. He was never discouraged but always looked forward and studied the harder. I think if the colored people study like King Alfred they will soon do away the evil of slavery. I can’t see how the Americans can call this a land of freedom where so much slavery is."

When my husband went to the man who had insulted me, the man cursed him, and slapped him, and—had him arrested!
After she testified, “(t)he old judge looked up and said: This court will never take the word of a nigger against the word of a white man.’ ”

(..) household work is considered degrading because it has been disproportionately performed by Black women, who in turn are viewed as “inept” and “promiscuous.”