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[email protected]. The Echoes of Slavery: Recognizing the Racist Origins of the Agricultural and Domestic Worker Exclusion from the National Labor Relations Act JUAN F. PEREA* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE NEW DEAL ............ 100 A. Blacks and Southern Agriculture........................................... 100 B. The Politics of the New Deal.................................................. 102 II. THE EXCLUSION OF BLACKS FROM THE NEW DEAL ...................... 104 A. The NationalIndustrial Recovery Act (1933) ........................ 104 B. AgriculturalAdjustment Administration (1933) .................... 107 C. The Social Security Act (1935) ............................................... 109 D. The FairLabor StandardsAct (1938).................................... 114 III. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT AND ITS EXCLUSION OF AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC EMPLOYEES .............................. 118 A. The Legislative History of Section 152(3) .............................. 118 B. InterpretingSection 152(3) of the NLRA as Racially D iscriminatory .......................................................................