W.E.B. Du Bois: “There is a saying, that we shall doe to all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what…”

By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…