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The Negro Church (Hardcover)
W. E. B Du Bois; Edited by Alton B Pollard
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Discovery Miles 13 210
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This historical account of the transatlantic slave trade between
Africa and the United States is filled with a wealth of records,
details and analyses of its attempted suppression. The various
moral, economic and religious arguments against slavery were clear
from the outset of the practice in the early 16th century. The
ownership of a human life as an economic commodity was decried from
religious circles from the earliest days as an immoral affront to
basic human dignity. However the practice of gaining lifelong labor
in exchange only for a basic degree of care meant slavery persisted
for centuries across the New World as a lucrative endeavor. The
colonial United States would, from the early 17th century, receive
many thousands of slaves from Africa. Many of the slaves
transported were sent to work on plantations and farms which
steadily spread across the warmer southern states of the nation.
Others would do manual work on the docks, for instance moving goods
in the fledgling trading colonies.
As a Black man born during Reconstruction and being laid to rest in
1963 - W.E.B. Du Bois a political activist, sociologist and
historian is the foremost intellectual of Black America. This book
should be read as the clasic reader underlying all other works on
Black America. Truly, a hero to all Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois must
be read by all serious individuals who seek to understand the
struggle for freedom and liberation of Black America. A Collector's
Edition.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil
rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator,
historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his
work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be
overestimated. "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E.
B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the
problem of twentieth-century racism-scholarship, propaganda,
integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural
and economic separatism, politics, international communism,
expatriation, third world solidarity." -David Levering Lewis The
Souls of Black Folk propelled Du Bois to the forefront of the Civil
Rights movement when it was first published. This hard hitting
masterpiece is part essays, part memoir, and part fiction. More
than any other book it brought home just how racist and unjust
America could be, and demanded that African Americans be granted
access to education and equality.
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