Sellected Du Bois Essays

Оглавление

W. E. B. Du Bois. Sellected Du Bois Essays

Sellected Du Bois Essays

Table of Contents

A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South

Of the Training of Black Men

The Talented Tenth

By Prof. W.E. Burghardt Dubois

The Conservation of Races

Announcement

The Conservation of Races

The Economic Revolution in the South

Notes To. The Economic Revolution in the South. Note 1

Note 2

Note 3

Note 4

Note 5

Note 6

Note 7

Note 8

Note 9

Note 10

Note 11

Note 12

Note 13

Note 14

Note 15

Note 16

Note 17

Religion in the South

Footnotes:

Notes To. Religion in the South. Note 18

Note 19

Note 20

Note 21

Note 22

Note 23

Note 24

Note 25

Note 26

Note 27

Note 28

Strivings of the Negro People

The Black North: A Social Study

Отрывок из книги

W. E. B. Du Bois

Published by

.....

When the spring came, and the birds twittered, and the stream ran proud and full, little sister Lizzie, bold and thoughtless, flushed with the passion of youth, bestowed herself on the tempter, and brought home a nameless child. Josie shivered, and worked on, with the vision of schooldays all fled, with a face wan and tired,–worked until, on a summer's day, some one married another; then Josie crept to her mother like a hurt child, and slept–and sleeps.

I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley. The Lawrences have gone; father and son forever, and the other son lazily digs in the earth to live. A new young widow rents out their cabin to fat Reuben. Reuben is a Baptist preacher now, but I fear as lazy as ever, though his cabin has three rooms; and little Ella has grown into a bouncing woman, and is ploughing corn on the hot hillside. There are babies a plenty, and one half-witted girl. Across the valley is a house I did not know before, and there I found, rocking one baby and expecting another, one of my schoolgirls, a daughter of Uncle Bird Dowell. She looked somewhat worried with her new duties, but soon bristled into pride over her neat cabin, and the tale of her thrifty husband, the horse and cow, and the farm they were planning to buy.

.....