As I peer back through the shadow of my years, seeing not too clearly, but through the thickening veil of wish and after-thought, I seem to view my life divided into four distinct parts: the Age of Miracles, the Days of Disillusion, the Discipline of Work and Play, and the Second Miracle Age.
Du Bois outlines his life experiences in four distinct phases, reflecting on personal growth and change.
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The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.
And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.
The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.
Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.