Just this side Atlanta is the land of the Cherokees and to the southwest, not far from where Sam Hose was crucified, you may stand on a spot which is to-day the centre of the Negro problem,—the centre of those nine million men who are America’s dark heritage from slavery and the slave-trade.
Du Bois identifies a specific region in Georgia as the focal point of the "Negro problem," highlighting the enduring legacy of slavery and the slave trade in America.
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Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.