All 3 Uses of
successor
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- Butler's action was approved, but Fremont's was hastily countermanded, and his successor, Halleck, saw things differently.†
Chpt 2 *successor = replacement
- Less than a month after the weary Emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major-Gen. Oliver O. Howard to duty as Commissioner of the new Bureau.†
Chpt 2
- They forgot, too, just as their successors are forgetting, the rule of inequality:—that of the million black youth, some were fitted to know and some to dig; that some had the talent and capacity of university men, and some the talent and capacity of blacksmiths; and that true training meant neither that all should be college men nor all artisans, but that the one should be made a missionary of culture to an untaught people, and the other a free workman among serfs.†
Chpt 5successors = replacements
Definition:
replacement -- typically a person who takes the job of another person, but it can also be a thing that replaces something else