Although not exactly slaves, they are yet attached to the white people as tenants, servants or dependents.

Accepting this as their lot, they have been content to wear their lord's cast-off clothing, and live in his ramshackled barn or cellar.

In this unhappy state so many have settled down, losing all ambition to attain a higher station.

The world has gone on but in their sequestered sphere progress has passed them by.
What then is the cause?
There have been _bulldozing_, terrorism, maltreatment and what not of persecution; but the Negroes have not in large numbers wandered away from the land of their birth.

What the migrants themselves think about it, goes to the very heart of the trouble.
Some say that they left the South on account of injustice in the courts, unrest, lack of privileges, denial of the right to vote, bad treatment, oppression, segregation or lynching.