Properties
<p><em>No matter how degraded the factory hand, he is not real estate. . . .“It is safe to say that the law regards a Negro slave, so far as his civil status is concerned, purely and absolutely property, to be bought and sold and pass and descend as a tract of land, a horse, or an ox.”</em></p> <p>—W. E. B. Du Bois, <em>Black Reconstruction in America</em></p>
Authors: Cameron Rowland
Part of: Cameron Rowland Exhibition Texts