Slavery cannot share a government with Democracy,--it cannot bear a brand upon it; thence another revolution ... having achieved one revolution to escape democracy at the North, it must still achieve another to escape it at the South.
Du Bois argues that slavery and democracy cannot coexist, suggesting that further revolutions are necessary to resolve this conflict.
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