William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 13-16
“Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”
— Karl Marx, book Das Kapital
Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 7, pg. 329.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Source: Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest
Context: In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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