W.E.B. Du Bois: “It took but a spark to put this instinctive feeling into words, and words led to deeds.”

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.

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.

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