W.E.B. Du Bois: “I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the…”

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

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

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.

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