W.E.B. Du Bois: “An economic system based on slave labor will find, sooner or later, that the demand for the cheapest slave labor cannot…”

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

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.

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

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