¹⁰ Du Bois is drawing a generalized contrast between the older and younger members of the community. Those who were older had experienced slavery as adults and saw the Emancipation as "the glory of the coming of the Lord." Having witnessed this miracle, they believed that God would continue to improve their lot when He was ready. However, many of the younger members of the community for whom slavery was a distant memory were less hopeful, "and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado."