W.E.B. Du Bois: “In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost.”

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

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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

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.