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| 2bec8e5 | Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the aims of the white men who sought to destroy Reconstruction. From Du Bois's perspective, the 1895 constitutional convention was not an exercise in moral reform, or an effort to purge the state of corruption. These were simply bywords embraced to cover for the restoration of a despotic white supremacy. The problem was not that South Carolina's Reconstruction-era government had been consumed by unprecedented graft. Indeed, it was the exact opposite. The very success Miller highlighted, the actual record of 'Negro government' in South Carolina, undermined white supremacy. To redeem white supremacy, that record was twisted, mocked, and caricatured into something that better resembled the prejudices of white South Carolina. 'If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government,' wrote Du Bois, 'it was good Negro government. | negro-rule reconstruction w-e-b-du-bois good-negro-government south-carolina american-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 9d734e6 | Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them. | slavery african-american-women african-families crimes-against-humanity day-to-end-racism forced-labor heinous-crimes history-of-africans history-of-slavery human-bondage international-women-s-day postered-poetics-by-aberjhani quotation-poster-art sex-trafficking slave-holders web-dubois women-and-human-trafficking women-around-the-world women-s-history-month w-e-b-du-bois human-trafficking women-in-history slavery-in-the-united-states physical-abuse wisdom-quotes forgiveness psychological-trauma | Aberjhani | |
| c38eac9 | "It is interesting that a guy like W.E.B. Du Bois, who actually did very little, I should imagine, with his hands, wrote about "I am the smoke king." Without the labor, both free and slave, of African Americans this country would still be a wilderness." | america poetry us w-e-b-du-bois usa labor united-states race-relations race | Nikki Giovanni |