Du Bois grounded Reconstruction’s fall in economic class forces.
Evidence
In the work, and on innumerable occasions, Du Bois stresses the underlying economic bases for the dismantling of the experiment in reconstruction and for the reconciliation between industrial capitalists and the southern agrarian capitalists who commanded labor and land in the antebellum period. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2193