Between the two extreme types of ethical attitude which I have thus sought to make clear wavers the mass of the millions of Negroes, North and South; and their religious life and activity partake of this social conflict within their ranks.
Du Bois discusses the complex ethical landscape faced by African Americans in their religious lives.
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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.
Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.
So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.