Except Servants

Segregation
Labor & Economics
Critiques racial prejudice that welcomes ‘servants’ but excludes Black people, exposing caste and labor bias.
Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Published

January 1, 1911

Cover of The Crisis, January 1911

The Crisis
January 1911

The noticeable reservation in all attempts, North and South, to separate black folk and white is the saving phrase, “Except servants.”

Are not servants colored? Is the objection, then, to colored people or to colored people who are not servants? In other words, is this race prejudice inborn antipathy or a social and economic caste?

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1911. “Except Servants.” The Crisis 1 (3): 21. https://www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/01/03/servants.html.