W.E.B. Du Bois: “Although even here the institution was naturally doomed, yet the clear moral insight of the Quakers checked the trade…”

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.

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

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

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