The Souls of Black Folk: “Afterthought”
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought […]
Of the Sorrow Songs
Source: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of the Sorrow Songs,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 250-264. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/7psUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. I […]
“Of the Faith of the Fathers,” from The Souls of Black Folk
It WAS out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night. The road wandered from our rambling log-house up the stony bed […]
“Of the Sons of Master and Man,” from The Souls of Black Folk
The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification during the new century. Indeed, the characteristic of our age is the contact of […]
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it, All, nevertheless, […]
Story written for Noah Brooks
On thursday of last week two ladies from Tennessee came before the President asking the release of their husbands held as prisoners of war at Johnson’s Island. They were put […]
Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America
The most important portions of Bernard’s proposals are reprinted below from the original edition. 1. The Kingdom of Great Britain is imperial; that is, sovereign, and not subordinate to or […]
Second Treatise Chapters 16-19
Chapter 16 Of Conquest 175. THOUGH governments can originally have no other rise than that before mentioned, nor polities be founded on anything but the consent of the people, yet […]
Second Treatise Chapters 13-15
Chapter 13 Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth 149. THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth standing upon its own basis and acting according to its own nature- […]
Second Treatise Chapters 10-12
Chapter 10 Of the Forms of a Commonwealth 132. THE majority having, as has been showed, upon men’s first uniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally […]