Both Uses of
hereditary
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home.†
Chpt 1
- * * * * * * * * * Hereditary bondsmen!†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
passed from parent to child