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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 106
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
The common diet of the people was fat pork and corn bread. At times I have eaten in cabins where they had only corn bread and “black-eye peas” cooked in plain water. The people seemed to have no other idea than to live on this fat meat and corn bread,—the meat, and the meal of which the bread was made, having been bought at a high price at a store in town, notwithstanding the fact that the land all about the cabin homes could easily have been made to produce nearly every kind of garden vegetable that is raised anywhere in the country. Their one object seemed to be to plant nothing but cotton; and in many cases cotton was planted up to the very door of the cabin.
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定位：Excerpt 106 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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当地黑人日常吃的是肥猪肉和玉米面包，有时只有玉米面包和清水煮的黑眼豆。他们似乎只想着靠买来的肥肉和玉米面包过活，尽管房前屋后土地完全能种各种蔬菜。他们唯一的目标是种棉花，甚至把棉花种到小屋门口。核心是：单一经济作物和依赖购买食品导致生活贫困和营养单一。可执行的做法是：利用身边土地种植多样蔬菜，减少对高价商店食品的依赖，改变只种棉花的习惯。
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华盛顿描述19世纪末美国南方黑人佃农的生活状况，他们大多租种土地，被迫以棉花为主要作物。
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