W.E.B. Du Bois: “The crime of trading in human beings has been for many years branded by the reprobation of all civilized nations.”

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.

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

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…