W.E.B. Du Bois: “They saw a people whose helpless women have been raped by thousands and whose men lynched by hundreds in the face of a…”

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

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…