W.E.B. Du Bois: “There was no veil of hypocrisy here, but a wickedness, frank, ungilded, and open.”

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.