W.E.B. Du Bois: “And if no one dare inform, the whole authority of the Government cannot carry the law into effect.”

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

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

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

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