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Definition
coming from the past or left to the future — especially a gift left in a will
- The passing of a great human institution before its work is done, like the untimely passing of a single soul, but leaves a legacy of striving for other men.Chapter 2 (96% in)
- The legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau is the heavy heritage of this generation.Chapter 2 (96% in)
- To-day, when new and vaster problems are destined to strain every fibre of the national mind and soul, would it not be well to count this legacy honestly and carefully?Chapter 2 (97% in)
- That is the large legacy of the Freedmen's Bureau, the work it did not do because it could not.Chapter 2 (99% in)
- How curious a land is this,—how full of untold story, of tragedy and laughter, and the rich legacy of human life; shadowed with a tragic past, and big with future promise!Chapter 7 (47% in)
There are no more uses of "legacy" in The Souls of Black Folk.
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