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(7) —-— an accident the train will arrive in time.
(a) Besides. (b) Accepting.
(c) Despite. (d) Barring.

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Section C

Answer any one question.
The question carries 11 marks.

20. Read the passage and do as directed :

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In the two decades between 1910 and 1930, over ten percent of the Black population of the
United States left the South, where the preponderance of the Black population had been
located, and migrated to northern states, with the largest number moving, it is claimed, between
1916 and 1918. It has been frequently assumed, but not proved, that the majority of the
migrants in what has come to be called the Great Migration came from rural areas and were
motivated by two concurrent factors: the collapse of the cotton industry following the boll
weevil infestation, which began in 1898, and increased demand in the North for labour following
the cessation of European immigration caused by the outbreak of the First World War
in 1914. This assumption has led to the conclusion that the migrants' subsequent lack of
economic mobility in the North is tied to rural background, a background that implies

unfamiliarity with urban living and a lack of industrial skills.

But the question of who actually left the South has never been rigorously investigated.
Although numerous investigations document an exodus from rural southern areas to southern
cities prior to the Great Migration, no one has considered whether the same migrants then
moved on to northern cities. In 1910, over 600,000 Black workers, or ten percent of the Black
workforce, reported themselves to be engaged in "manufacturing and mechanical pursuits,"
the federal census category roughly encompassing the entire industrial sector. The Great
Migration could easily have been made up entirely of this group and their families. It is
perhaps surprising to argue that an employed population could be enticed to move, but an

explanation lies in the labour conditions prevalent in the South.

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