The activity of a church like this is immense and far-reaching, and the bishops who preside over these organizations throughout the land are among the most powerful Negro rulers in the world.
Du Bois highlights the extensive reach and significant authority wielded by the leaders of the Black church across the nation.
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By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.
In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.
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.