“In the production of cotton, in the oil mills, in the tobacco factories, colored people are freely employed. These are all occupations common to the South.

This business of manufacturing cotton came from you to us and it came with white operatives. The colored man is least employed in that industry in which most New England money is invested in the South.

Mr. JUSTIN A. Ware. In North Carolina I asked a colored man why he did not go into the cotton mill industry. The poor white trash worked in a cotton mill and the colored people didn’t want to.”

Reference Data:

Transactions of th National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Issue 59, by The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers and the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, 1895, page 224