Answer:
It was that they were cruel and dishonest.
Explanation:
The lowell system was a labor and production model employed in the U.S. during the early years of the American textile industry in the early 19th century. The rhode island system refers to a system of mills, small villages and farms, ponds, dams, and spillways first developed by Samuel and John Slater.
This means that public services such as bathrooms or water fountains could still be whites only or blacks only but they had to be equal in quality. (i.e the bathroom for whites only could not be very clean and fancy while the blacks only bathroom was dirty).