W.E.B. Du Bois: “The sole advantage of this small class is their freedom to choose their crops, and the increased responsibility which…”

The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence.

The songs are indeed the siftings of centuries; the music is far more ancient than the words, and in it we can trace here and there signs of development.

They came to New York and Henry Ward Beecher dared to welcome them, even though the metropolitan dailies sneered at his “Nigger Minstrels.” So their songs conquered till they sang across the land and across the sea, before Queen and…

But not all the past South, though it rose from the dead, can gainsay the heart-touching witness of these songs.