W.E.B. Du Bois: “Resolved, That the slaves in the brig Creole are amenable only to the laws of the United States.”

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

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.

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

With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…