If it is our duty as honest colored men and women, battling for a great principle, to bring not aimless rafts of children to the world, but as many as, with reasonable sacrifice, we can train to largest manhood, what in its inner essence shall that training be, particularly in its beginning?
Du Bois discusses the importance of intentional parenting in raising children to confront societal challenges.
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Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.
But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.
By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.
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.