W.E.B. Du Bois: “I turn from these well-tended acres with a comfortable feeling that the Negro is rising.”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

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

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

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.