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It is interesting that a guy like W.E.B. Du Bois, who actually did very little, I should imagine, with his hands, wrote about I am the smoke king. Without the labor, both free and slave, of African Americans this country would still be a wilderness.

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It is interesting that a guy like W.E.B. Du Bois, who actually did very little, I should imagine, with his hands, wrote about I am the smoke king. Without the labor, both free and slave, of African Americans this country would still be a wilderness.

Tags: poetry, race, america, labor, usa, united states, race relations, us, w e b du bois

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