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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. | american-history good-negro-government negro-rule reconstruction south-carolina w-e-b-du-bois | 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. | african-american-women african-families crimes-against-humanity day-to-end-racism forced-labor forgiveness heinous-crimes history-of-africans history-of-slavery human-bondage human-trafficking international-women-s-day physical-abuse postered-poetics-by-aberjhani psychological-trauma quotation-poster-art sex-trafficking slave-holders slavery slavery-in-the-united-states w-e-b-du-bois web-dubois wisdom-quotes women-and-human-trafficking women-around-the-world women-in-history women-s-history-month | 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 labor poetry race race-relations united-states us usa w-e-b-du-bois | Nikki Giovanni |