W.E.B. Du Bois: “Is it inconceivable that now and then it bursts all bounds, as at Brownsville and Houston?”

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

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

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