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The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VI
2 Yonder stretch the wide acres of Bildad Reasor; he died in war-time, but the upstart overseer hastened to wed the widow.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VII
3 Mother and child are sung, but seldom father; fugitive and weary wanderer call for pity and affection, but there is little of wooing and wedding; the rocks and the mountains are well known, but home is unknown.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In XIV
4 The one type of Negro stands almost ready to curse God and die, and the other is too often found a traitor to right and a coward before force; the one is wedded to ideals remote, whimsical, perhaps impossible of realization; the other forgets that life is more than meat and the body more than raiment.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In X
5 I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a half-awakened common consciousness, sprung from common joy and grief, at burial, birth, or wedding; from a common hardship in poverty, poor land, and low wages; and, above all, from the sight of the Veil that hung between us and Opportunity.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In IV