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the right to vote, right to hold office,
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serve on a jury, engage in the political culture,
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in spite of the hostility and the violence and intimidation.
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We've learned a great deal about what can be achieved with political liberty,
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but we've also learned a lot about
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what is often not achieved in any kind of concomitant economic power.
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What happens now in the South is a rapid process
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from slave labor to a whole new set of economic arrangements
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in the contract realm.
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What blacks most wanted to get away from, to kill off if they could,
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was any old system of gang labor.
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They wanted control over the labor and lives of their women.