W.E.B. Du Bois: “Just here it is that modern men demand that Democracy supplant skilfully concealed, but all too evident, Monarchy.”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.