W.E.B. Du Bois: “As a result the Negro women outnumber the men nine or ten to eight in many cities, making what Charlotte Gilman bluntly…”

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

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.