W.E.B. Du Bois: “Such souls aforetime have inspired and guided worlds, and if we be not wholly bewitched by our Rhinegold, they shall…”

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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.

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

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.