The twelfth chapter of this work describes the life of Alexander Crummell, while its thirteenth consists of a short story about the education and subsequent lynching of John Jones.
The twelfth chapter of this work describes the life of Alexander Crummell, while its thirteenth consists of a short story about the education and subsequent lynching of John Jones. In another chapter, "Of the Passing of the First-Born," its author describes the death of his infant son, which frees the dead child from growing up "choked and deformed within the Veil." Each chapter begins with bars of music from spirituals, or "Sorrow-Songs," while chapter three criticizes the Atlanta Compromise. Beginning with an explanation of the "double consciousness" of the title race and the sentence "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line," FTP, name this 1903 work by W.E.B. DuBois.
The twelfth chapter of this work describes the life of Alexander Crummell, while its thirteenth consists of a short story about the education and subsequent lynching of John Jones.
The {Souls of Black Folk}