Part 2 Series: In Memory Of; The Souls of Black Folk
Africans. Du Bois tells of his journey to the land of the Creek Indians that is near Macon. Where the world grows darker, and the journey leads one to the "Black Belt." The strange land of shadows, at which even slaves paled in the past and whence come now only faint and half-intelligible murmurs to the world beyond. All the way to Albany. At Albany, in the heart of the "Black Belt" two hundred miles south of Atlanta, two hundred miles west of the Atlantic, and one hundred miles north of the Great Gulf lay Dougherty County. This county with ten thousand Negroes and two thousand whites where the Flint River winds down from Andersonville, and turning suddenly at Albany. The county seat hurries on to join the Chattahoochee and the sea. Andrew Jackson knew the Flint well and marched across it once to avenge the Indian Massacre at Fort Mims. That was in 1814, not long before the battle of New Orleans and by the Creek treaty that followed this campaign.
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