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Henry Grady was an American journalist who encouraged the industrialization of the South as vital to the South’s survival. He recognized that the already-industrialized North had an economic advantage and that the South needed to catch up. Grady apologized for the South’s defense of slavery and argued that the “New South” would offer African Americans a valuable place in its future. Unfortunately, that future was still steeped in exploitation of labor, servitude, and second-class status, reminiscent of the Old South.