W.E.B. Du Bois: “These disinherited darker peoples must either share in the future industrial democracy or overturn the world.”

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.