W.E.B. Du Bois: “It must represent, not simply governments, but civilization, science, commerce, social reform, religious philanthropy…”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.