W.E.B. Du Bois: “It lay, as every Negro soon knew and knows, in escape from menial serfdom.”

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

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.