The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and SketchesA.C. McClurg & Company, 1907 - 264 halaman |
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A. C. McCLURG acres Alexander Crummell amid Atlanta beauty Beriah Green better Black Belt black boy blood cabins careless cent centre civilization color color-line coöperation cotton crime crop culture dark death dollars Dougherty County dream economic Emancipation eyes face farm father feeling Fisk Jubilee Singers Fisk University freedmen Freedmen's Bureau freedom Georgia half hands hard heart hill Hippomenes human hundred ideals ignorant John Josie laborers land live looked mass master ment metayers millions morning mother nation Negro church Negro problem Nigger night North perhaps plantation political race rent Sam Hose seemed shadow silent slave slavery social songs sorrow Sorrow Songs SOULS OF BLACK South Southern strange striving tall teachers tenant things thought thousand tion to-day toil town Veil voice W. E. BURGHARDT Washington wonder young
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Halaman 253 - Songs there breathes a hope — a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it .is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.