The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

Then, as planters awoke to empty fields, the South began to panic. “Where shall we get labor to take their places?” asked the Montgomery Advertiser, as southerners began to confront the reality observed by the Columbia State of South Carolina: “Black labor is the best labor the South can get. No other would work long under the same conditions.”

Interesting we’re doing it again with illegal aliens and getting the same result

She put the disappointments in a lockbox in the back of her mind and lived in the moment, which is all anybody has for sure.