The Souls of Black Folk — Vocabulary
W. E. B. DuBois
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Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the "higher" against the "lower" races.†31 more

First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath.28 more

He early appeared on the plantation and found his function as the healer of the sick, the interpreter of the Unknown, the comforter of the sorrowing, the supernatural avenger of wrong, and the one who rudely but picturesquely expressed the longing, disappointment, and resentment of a stolen and oppressed people.†6 more

So gradually the tone of the army chiefs changed; Congress forbade the rendition of fugitives, and Butler's "contrabands" were welcomed as military laborers.†12 more

If history and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic NO. And Mr. Washington thus faces the triple paradox of his career: 1.†9 more

And all this life and love and strife and failure,—is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day?†12 more

Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado.†9 more

All these experiments, orders, and systems were bound to attract and perplex the government and the nation.†9 more

This is primarily because we have so little accurate knowledge of country life.†6 more

Schemes of migration and colonization arose among them; but these they refused to entertain, and they eventually turned to the Abolition movement as a final refuge.†8 more

In the work of establishing the Negroes as peasant proprietors, the Bureau was from the first handicapped and at last absolutely checked.†9 more

The landlord therefore demands his rent in cotton, and the merchant will accept mortgages on no other crop.†9 more

Furniture was scarce.†6 more

It was rather a choice between suffrage and slavery, after endless blood and gold had flowed to sweep human bondage away.†10 more

The disappointment and impatience of the Negroes at the persistence of slavery and serfdom voiced itself in two movements.†11 more

It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, "Will you step this way, please, sir?"3 more

He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.3 more

Even in this system fraud was frequent; but still the work put needed capital in the hands of practical paupers, and some, at least, was well spent.†6 more

The bare red clay and pines of Northern Georgia begin to disappear, and in their place appears a rich rolling land, luxuriant, and here and there well tilled.†4 more

The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,—refused it peremptorily, with a glance.†3 more