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The Souls of Black Folk
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- The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for freedom.†
Chpt 1serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- So the decade flew away, the revolution of 1876 came, and left the half-free serf weary, wondering, but still inspired.†
Chpt 1
- Almost every law and method ingenuity could devise was employed by the legislatures to reduce the Negroes to serfdom,—to make them the slaves of the State, if not of individual owners; while the Bureau officials too often were found striving to put the "bottom rail on top," and gave the freedmen a power and independence which they could not yet use.†
Chpt 2serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- The disappointment and impatience of the Negroes at the persistence of slavery and serfdom voiced itself in two movements.†
Chpt 3 *
- It was no maiden's idle whim that started this hard racing; a fearful wilderness lay about the feet of that city after the War,—feudalism, poverty, the rise of the Third Estate, serfdom, the re-birth of Law and Order, and above and between all, the Veil of Race.†
Chpt 5
- For every social ill the panacea of Wealth has been urged,—wealth to overthrow the remains of the slave feudalism; wealth to raise the "cracker" Third Estate; wealth to employ the black serfs, and the prospect of wealth to keep them working; wealth as the end and aim of politics, and as the legal tender for law and order; and, finally, instead of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, wealth as the ideal of the Public School.†
Chpt 5serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- To-day the ferment of his striving toward self-realization is to the strife of the white world like a wheel within a wheel: beyond the Veil are smaller but like problems of ideals, of leaders and the led, of serfdom, of poverty, of order and subordination, and, through all, the Veil of Race.†
Chpt 5serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- 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 5serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- When the crop is growing the merchant watches it like a hawk; as soon as it is ready for market he takes possession of it, sells it, pays the landowner his rent, subtracts his bill for supplies, and if, as sometimes happens, there is anything left, he hands it over to the black serf for his Christmas celebration.†
Chpt 8serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- Just as centuries ago it was no easy thing for the serf to escape into the freedom of town-life, even so to-day there are hindrances laid in the way of county laborers.†
Chpt 8
- This represents the lowest economic depths of the black American peasant; and in a study of the rise and condition of the Negro freeholder we must trace his economic progress from the modern serfdom.†
Chpt 8serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(serf) Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)