W.E.B. Du Bois: “Slowly but remorselessly the skilled and intelligent, banding themselves, had threatened the coffers of the mighty, and…”

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

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…

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.