1. "Even the master who worked his slaves to death or flogged them...had perhaps a certain moral advantage over the capitalist manufacturer"
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2. That's from an Edmund Wilson article, New Republic, July 29, 1931.
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3. Readers of Wilson will recognize in article some of the southern nostalgia that later disfigured Patriotic Gore (a great, flawed book)
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4. A month after that ridiculous bit of Southern apologia, Wilson wrote a brilliant reportage on Scottsboro case. Such a contradictory man
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