And the Negro knew full well that, whatever their deeper convictions may have been, Southern men had fought with desperate energy to perpetuate this slavery under which the black masses, with half-articulate thought, had writhed and shivered.
Du Bois asserts that Black people understood the profound commitment of Southern society to maintaining slavery, despite any claims to the contrary.
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