Just at this time the mayor was boasting that he had put an end to gambling and prize fighting in the city; but here a swarm of professional gamblers had leagued themselves with the police to fleece the strikebreakers; and any night, in the big open space in front of Brown’s, one might see brawny n*****s stripped to the waist and pounding each other for money, while a howling throng of three or four thousand surged about, men and women, youngwhite girls from the country rubbing elbows with big buck n*****s with daggers in their boots, while rows of woolly heads peered down from every window of the surrounding factories. The ancestors of these black people had been savages in Africa; and sincethen they had been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a community ruled by the traditions of
