W.E.B. Du Bois: “Out of little, unspoiled souls rise up wonderful resources and healing balm.”

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.