With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation-from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. It remains his most studied and popular work its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. more » ociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African-American intellectuals-a s. The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics) ( 1st Edition) by Brent Hayes Edwards (Editor) Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 2007 Prime B&N Member Books A Million Club eCampus Member Indigo.ca iRewards Fye.com Member Filters: Hide All Used Hide Unspecified Hide Acceptable Hide Good Hide Very Good Hide Like New Hide Rentals Hide Digital Hide Variants Hide Backorders Store Languages: « Less Settings Discounts: Include Coupons Include Offers member of.
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