the enacted laws against slave revolt are unanswerable testimony as to what these revolts meant all over America.
This clause in particular reminds me of the response of the United States to mass shootings. Even though there is a large campaign for gun control, it is failing. Will the failure of the government to respond to this define the future's view of us on this issues the way DuBois defines the pre-Civil War United States by its efforts to further control slaves?