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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1909
Page
36
An interview with a rural Georgia planter discusses racial decay and the race problem in the South. He asserts whites and blacks interact in social and economic hierarchies, warns of dangers to white society, and claims black autonomy challenges white control.
An article characterizes Captain F H Fluker of Greene County as a fierce critic of Reconstruction era policies. It cites his belief that the antebellum patriarchal system offered the only hope to slow racial decay, criticizing peonage enforcement and calls for temperance, education, and controlled labor.
The article reviews Captain Pinker’s views on the postbellum black labor system in Georgia. It quotes his claims that many formerly enslaved workers have regressed, that landlords rely on a large enslaved workforce, and that mismanagement and improvidence among tenants frustrate planters. Pinker argues for facing racial issues honestly to mend the nation’s white and Black relations and to curb destructive social trends.
A Georgia planter laments a cycle of debt and crime among Black workers, describing “hot suppers” as gatherings of revelry that drain labor and fuel dissipation. He claims alcohol and secret societies corrode families, undermine plantations, and threaten agriculture, arguing for strict paternal control and disavowal of migration or colonization as solutions.
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