W.E.B. Du Bois: “So far as white men are concerned, this fact is to-day being recognized in the South, and a happy renaissance of…”

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

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…

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.