"The German and English and French serf, the Italian and Russian serf, were, on emancipation, given definite rights in the land. Only the American Negro slave was emancipated without such rights and in the end this spelled for him the continuation of slavery."
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W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (1935), p. 611
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