For fifty years Negro religion thus transformed itself and identified itself with the dream of Abolition, until that which was a radical fad in the white North and an anarchistic plot in the white South had become a religion to the black world.
Du Bois analyzes how Black religion evolved over fifty years, becoming deeply intertwined with the abolitionist movement.
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The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.
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I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.
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