The Gift of Black Folk & The Souls of Black Folk (New Edition). W. E. B. Du Bois

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      The Gift of Black Folk &

      The Souls of Black Folk

      The Gift of Black Folk &

      The Souls of Black Folk

      W. E. B. Du Bois

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      Wisehouse Classics

      W. E. B. Du Bois

      The Gift of Black Folk & The Souls of Black Folk

      W

      Wisehouse Classics

      © 2020 Wisehouse Publishing | Sweden

      All rights reserved without exception.

      ISBN 978-91-7637-775-8

      Contents

       ~THE GIFT OF BLACK FOLK~

       Prescript

       I The Black Explorers

       II Black Labor

       III Black Soldiers

       1. Colonial Wars

       2. The Revolutionary War

       3. The War of 1812

       4. The Civil War

       5. The War in Cuba

       6. Carrizal

       7. The World War

       IV The Emancipation of Democracy

       1. Democracy

       2. Influence on White Thought

       3. Insurrection

       4. Haiti and After

       5. The Appeal to Reason

       6. The Fugitive Slave

       7. Bargaining

       V The Reconstruction of Freedom

       VI The Freedom of Womanhood

       VII The American Folk Song

       VIII Negro Art and Literature

       IX The Gift of the Spirit

       Postscript

       [The Racial Contributions to the United States]

       ~THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK~

       The Forethought

       I Of Our Spiritual Strivings

       II Of The Dawn of Freedom

       III Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

       IV Of the Meaning of Progress

       V Of the Wings of Atalanta

       VI Of the Training of Black Men

       VII Of the Black Belt

       IIX Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece

       IX Of the Sons of Master and Man

       X Of the Faith of the Fathers

       XI Of the Passing of the First-Born

       XII Of Alexander Crummell

       XIII Of the Coming of John

       XIV Of the Sorrow Songs

       The Afterthought

~THE GIFT OF BLACK FOLK~

      The Negros in the Making of America

      (1924)

Prescript

      Who made America?

      Who made this land that swings its empire from the Atlantic to the Sea of Peace and from Snow to Fire—this realm of New Freedom, with Opportunity and Ideal unlimited?

      Now that its foundations are laid, deep but bare, there are those as always who would forget the humble builders, toiling wan mornings and blazing noons, and picture America as the last reasoned blossom of mighty ancestors; of those great and glorious world builders and rulers who know and see and do all things forever and ever, Amen!

      How singular and blind!

      For the glory of the world is the possibilities of the commonplace and America is America even because it shows, as never before, the power of the common,