W.E.B. Du Bois: “The results among them, even, are long hours of toil, low wages, child labor, and lack of protection against usury and…”

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

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

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