W.E.B. Du Bois: “America, Land of Democracy, wanted to believe in the failure of democracy so far as darker peoples were concerned.”

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.

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

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