W.E.B. Du Bois: “But this we do know, that our children's children live forever and grow and develop toward perfection as they are…”

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

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

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.