W.E.B. Du Bois: “Our great ethical question today is, therefore, how may we justly distribute the world's goods to satisfy the necessary…”

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

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