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In reply to the discussion: Most polite "F--K You" letter written by former slave to former master [View all]Raggaemon
(70 posts)In her best selling book, The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabell Wilkerson chronicles in great detail the lives of three people who were part of the Great Black Migration, when increasing numbers of black folks began fleeing the South in search of better opportunities elsewhere, the period started at the end of WWI and ended in the early 1970's, my family was part of that migration.
The book cites newspaper articles published in newspapers around the South where they signaled deep concerns about the shrinking of the black labor force, largely doing back-breaking, low waged agricultural field labor, not knowing any better it could be easy to think the articles were written during slavery ... where did all the darkies go, don't they know master can't sell his crops without them here working?