W.E.B. Du Bois: “They were right when they sought to found a new educational system upon the University: where, forsooth, shall we ground…”

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.