W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is not--it cannot be a mere, inert, unfeeling, brute fact--its grandeur is too serene--its beauty too divine!”

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

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.