The specter of the free and equal black person seemed to send racial prejudice to new heights, and, to be fair, not just in the South.
Meanwhile, industrialization increased significantly in the South, particularly in the number of cotton mills that were constructed. Much of the population nevertheless remained desperately poor, and ex-slaves were treated as they always had been, in some cases even more miserably. What had changed in the South, however, was the rise of a new class of Southern businessmen, determined to bring to the South the same level of economic prosperity that the North enjoyed. Of such a class are the main characters of The Little Foxes, a wealthy, nonaristocratic family determined to use whatever means necessary- including in this case exploitation of poor laborers as well as of the broken aristocracy-to achieve their goal. And, like many Southern entrepreneurs at the time, the play's Hubbard family allies itself with Northern capital.
Cotton battles. The Little Foxes is set in the spring of 1900, a time during which the American North and South were negotiating a truce in their enduring economic and social battle over cotton, a product upon which both economies relied heavily.
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