The Black bourgeoisie’s class interests diverged from Black labor during Reconstruction

Evidence

For the first time in his public pronouncements, he was resolved to expose the extent to which his beloved elite, through the logic of its own development, had moved apart from the Black masses. As he reckoned it, the process of bourgeoisification and alienation that had begun during slavery had not revealed its contradiction until the Reconstruction. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 961

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Du Bois’s own work and anticipates later Black revolutionary critiques of the Black middle class.