Answer:
Du Bois certainly is an important thinker, but a poet? Yes, a poet. The paraphrase 'late land of slavery' is from a poem.
That is a adjective because it is describing where the society is meeting.
The answer is Personification
I think it is But our revived spirits were not to be damped by difficulties on the last stage of the journey, and we camped cheerfully for breakfast.
