“the civil war in the South which overthrew Reconstruction”? “And it seems to America a proof of inherent (permanent) race inferiority that four million slaves did not completely emancipate (free) themselves in eighty years, in the midst (in the middle) of nine million bitter enemies, and indifferent (don’t care) public opinion of the whole nation.”? What points is DR. Du Bois making about Reconstruction with these two statements?