No other State in the Union can count a million Negroes among its citizens,—a population as large as the slave population of the whole Union in 1800; no other State fought so long and strenuously to gather this host of Africans.
Du Bois highlights Georgia's unique demographic and historical significance, noting its large Black population and its historical role in perpetuating the slave trade.
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Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.
Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.
Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.