Poor white leaders were bound to planters and repelled from slaves
Evidence
Du Bois added that the poor whites were also bound to the master class: “Indeed, the natural leaders of the poor whites, the small farmer, the merchant, the professional man, the white mechanic and slave overseer, were bound to the planters and repelled from the slaves… . [T]he only heaven that attracted them was the life of the great Southern planter” (p. 27). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1109
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Category: Factual Claims
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