W.E.B. Du Bois: “So, gloomed in tall and stone-swathed groves, The Buddha walks with Christ!”

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

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

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

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…