W.E.B. Du Bois: “When shall culture training give place to technical education for work?" Never.”

By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.

The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the…

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.