Du Bois traced 1930s Depression roots to white labor’s antislavery responses

Evidence

As we shall see, Du Bois argued that the roots of the Depression of the third decade of the twentieth Century were to be found in the responses of white labor to the freeing of the slaves. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2200

Categorization

• QUESTION: A striking periodization: Du Bois connected the Great Depression causally back to Reconstruction-era white labor responses. Worth chasing how he sustained this across decades.