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The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
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  1. Front Matter
    1. Table of Contents
    2. Foreword
    3. Preface: The Racial Contributions to the United States
    4. Prescript
  2. Chapter I. The Black Explorers
  3. Chapter II. Black Labor
  4. Chapter III. Black Soldiers
    1. 1. Colonial Wars
    2. 2. The Revolutionary War
    3. 3. The War of 1812
    4. 4. The Civil War
    5. 5. The War in Cuba
    6. 6. Carrizal
    7. 7. The World War
  5. Chapter IV. The Emancipation of Democracy
    1. 1. Democracy
    2. 2. Influence on White Thought
    3. 3. Insurrection
    4. 4. Haiti and After
    5. 5. The Appeal to Reason
    6. 6. The Fugitive Slave
    7. 7. Bargaining
  6. Chapter V. The Reconstruction of Freedom
  7. Chapter VI. The Freedom of Womanhood
  8. Chapter VII. The American Folk Song
  9. Chapter VIII. Negro Art and Literature
  10. Chapter IX. The Gift of the Spirit
  11. Back Matter
    1. Postscript
    2. Footnotes
    3. Index
    4. The Full Project Gutenberg License

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Title: The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois

Author of introduction, etc.: Edward F. McSweeney

Release date: September 27, 2021 [eBook #66398]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIFT OF BLACK FOLK: THE NEGROES IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA ***

THE
GIFT of BLACK FOLK

The Negroes in the
Making of America

by
W. E. Burghardt DuBois
Ph. D. (Harv.)

Author of “The Souls of Black Folk,” “Darkwater,” etc.
Editor of The Crisis

Introduction by
EDWARD F. McSWEENEY, LL. D.

1924
THE STRATFORD CO., Publishers
Boston, Massachusetts

Copyright, 1924
By THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Printed in the United States of America

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