W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forced human toil,—now…”

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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

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.