Taking, then, the dissatisfied and shiftless field-hand as a starting-point, let us inquire how the black thousands of Dougherty have struggled from him up toward their ideal, and what that ideal is.
Du Bois proposes to examine the struggles of black laborers in Dougherty as they strive toward their ideals.
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Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.
The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.