Fears of a Jewish invasion in some economic spheres “forced” the Venetian rulers to expel the Jews from the city into the ghetto. Many Jews moved to ghettos because they faced persecution in their communities and anti-Semitism (Weiner, 2000, p.2). Likewise, due to the social and economic effects of the Great Depression, many African Americans fled from the South to the North in an attempt to escape poverty, prejudice, and racial discrimination. The Great Depression was an economic collapse in the history of the United States between World War I and World War II. In an attempt to escape intolerable living conditions and clinging to the hope of a “brief glimpse of post-Civil War freedom (Wright, p.7)” many blacks fled the South and landed in the Midwest area (Illinois or Kansas) where those states sent arbitrary conflicting signals between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery camps. In The Native Son, Wright introduces Bigger's boss, Mr. Dalton, as embodying donating money for welfare while simultaneously owning a rat-infested apartment where Bigger and his family