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someone who is very poor
- Even in this system fraud was frequent; but still the work put needed capital in the hands of practical paupers, and some, at least, was well spent.Chapter 2 (74% in)
- So, too, Colonel Eaton, the superintendent of Tennessee and Arkansas, ruled over one hundred thousand freedmen, leased and cultivated seven thousand acres of cotton land, and fed ten thousand paupers a year.Chapter 2 (18% in)
- The opponents of the measure declared that the war was over, and the necessity for war measures past; that the Bureau, by reason of its extraordinary powers, was clearly unconstitutional in time of peace, and was destined to irritate the South and pauperize the freedmen, at a final cost of possibly hundreds of millions.Chapter 2 (47% in)
- A revolution such as that of '63 is a terrible thing; they that rose rich in the morning often slept in paupers' beds.Chapter 7 (86% in)
- So skilfully and so closely has he drawn the bonds of the law about the tenant, that the black man has often simply to choose between pauperism and crime; he "waives" all homestead exemptions in his contract; he cannot touch his own mortgaged crop, which the laws put almost in the full control of the land-owner and of the merchant.Chapter 8 (47% in)
- A "submerged tenth" of croppers, with a few paupers; forty per cent who are metayers and thirty-nine per cent of semi-metayers and wage-laborers.Chapter 8 (78% in)
- I am not saying a word against all legitimate efforts to purge the ballot of ignorance, pauperism, and crime.Chapter 9 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "pauper" in The Souls of Black Folk.
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