Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. "No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized
and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the
economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the
institution."
On which point would Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agree?