W.E.B. Du Bois: “I have seen a land right merry with the sun, where children sing, and rolling hills lie like passioned women wanton with…”

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

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

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

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.