W.E.B. Du Bois: “This was the temptation of Despair; and the young man fought it doggedly.”

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

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.

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.