The McClurg editors wrote me about 1900, asking if I did not have materialįor a book which they could consider. Written a few essays which had been accepted by the Atlantic Monthly, Negro was published by the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. Suppression of the African Slave Trade to America, which appeared as theįirst volume of the new Harvard Historical Studies in 1896. I had just published my first two books: a history of the McClurg & Company, began looking about for young and And, finally, need I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the Veil?įifty Years After Late in the nineteenth century, there developed in Chicago a movement toīuild a literary and publishing center in the Midwest. The World's Work, The Dial, The New World, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.īefore each chapter, as now printed, stands a bar of the Sorrow Songs, - some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from black souls in the dark past. For kindly consenting to their republication here, in altered and extended form, I must thank the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly, Some of these thoughts of mine have seen the light before in other guise. All this I have ended with a tale twice told but seldom written, and a chapter of song. Leaving, then, the white world, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, - the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. Venturing now into deeper detail, I have in two chapters studied the struggles of the massed millions of the black peasantry, and in another have sought to make clear the present relations of the sons of master and man. Then, in two other chapters I have sketched in swift outline the two worlds within and without the Veil, and thus have come to the central problem of training men for life. In a third chapter I have pointed out the slow rise of personal leadership, and criticised candidly the leader who bears the chief burden of his race to-day. First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath. I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive. receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. The Forethought HEREIN lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. Fifty Years After (new introduction by Du Bois for the Jubilee edition) The Forethought (Du Bois's original, 1903 introduction)Ģ. Du BoisĪnthologies Articles Films Intros Juvenile Mystery Non-fiction Novels Pamphlets Plays Poetry StoriesĪbout HF Texts Reviews Chrono Checklist Bookstore Bulletin Board Site Search Author Index Title Indexīlue Heron Press Citizen Tom Paine Freedom Road Last Frontier My Glorious Brothers Spartacus The Children Peekskill Unvanquished Masuto EVC's Women Howard Fast: Introductions to The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B.
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