No persons would have seen the Civil War with more surprise and horror than the Revolutionists of 1776; yet from the small and apparently dying institution of their day arose the walled and castled Slave-Power.
Du Bois reflects on the unexpected rise of the Slave Power, contrasting it with the views of the Revolutionists of 1776.
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So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.
The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.