Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. Here are his essential writings, spanning a long, restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice. The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade recounts how Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until taught by bloody civil war the consequences of moral cowardice. The essays in The Souls of Black Folk celebrate the strength and pride of black America, pay tribute to black music and religion, assess the career of Booker T. Washington, and remember the death of an infant son. The autobiography Dusk of Dawn moves from a Massachusetts boyhood to the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. and emerging Pan-African consciousness. Essays and speeches from 1890 to 1958 show Du Bois at his freshest and most trenchant. "Spans two centuries, four wars, eleven presidencies and untold events in American history. This is the backdrop, and liberation is the message."
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