W.E.B. Du Bois: “To both, the vision of a mighty beauty--of vast, unspoken things, swelled in their souls; but they put it away.”

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

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

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.