...conditions from the shoulders of the Negro. Mr. T. Thomas Fortune quotes from Dr. DuBois the statement that "in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary." He adds his own to this effect: ^UNIVERSITY' "It is a dark and gloomy picture, the substitution of...

...thus depicts the social and economic condition of the rural negro of the South: For this all men know: Despite compromise, war and struggle, the negro is...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the negroes are a segregated and servile caste,...

...depicts the social and economic condition of the rural negro of the South: For this all men know:_Despite compromise,. war and struggle, the negro is not free....which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the negroes are a segregated and servile caste,...

...count this legacy honestly and carefully ? For this much all men know : despite compromise, struggle, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated ser vile caste,...

...Slave to Caste Society: Penal Changes in Tennessee, 1830-1915 Bv RANDALL G. SHELDEN "1n the hack woods of the Gulf States, for miles and miles, he may not...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary." WEB DuBois, "Of the Dawn of Freedom," in The Souis of Black Folk, 1903. " the authorities simply lengthened...

...soul, would it not be well to count this legacy honestly and carefully? For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated caste, with restricted...

...count this legacy honestly and carefully? For this much all men know: despite compromise, struggle, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods...birth; in well-nigh the whole rural South the black fanners are peons, bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death...

...war whites still held most blacks in virtual bondage. "For this much all men know," DuBois concluded, "despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free." In the backwoods of the Gulf States ... he may not leave the plantation of his birth; in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers...

...soul. would it not be well to count this legacy honestly and carefully? For this much all men know; despite compromise. war. and struggle. the Negro is...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste. with...

...the conditions confronting the "Negro" in the post-Reconstruction South: "For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is...which the only escape is death or the penitentiary" (S 34). Du Bois aptlycharacterix.es the post-Reconstruction South as "largely [and] . . . simply an...