W.E.B. Du Bois: “On mountain and valley, in home and school, I met men and women as I had never met them before.”

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

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

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

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