W.E.B. Du Bois: “Few know of these problems, few who know notice them; and yet there they are, awaiting student, artist, and seer,—a…”

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

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

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…