W.E.B. Du Bois

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor. 

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”

Du Bois’ 1897 essay describes the “double consciousness” of African Americans who are “shut out from their world by a vast veil.”