Aug 27, 2021
“The first fruit of the growing understanding between industrial expansion and abolition – democracy was the Freedman’s Bureau. While industry in the North was dividing the labor movement and establishing a far more effective dictatorship of capital over labor than it had ever had before, it was compelled in the South to institute another dictatorship, designedly and expressly for the protection of emancipated Negro labor. In the Freedman’s Bureau, the United States started upon a dictatorship by which the land owner and the capitalist were to be openly and deliberately curbed and which directed efforts in the interest of a black and white labor class.”
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction 219
