All 3 Uses of
typify
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- Before 1750, while the fire of African freedom still burned in the veins of the slaves, there was in all leadership or attempted leadership but the one motive of revolt and revenge,—typified in the terrible Maroons, the Danish blacks, and Cato of Stono, and veiling all the Americas in fear of insurrection.†
Chpt 3typified = was a typical example of
- Not only is this true in the world which Atlanta typifies, but it is threatening to be true of a world beneath and beyond that world,—the Black World beyond the Veil.†
Chpt 5 *typifies = is a typical example of
- Amid it all, two figures ever stand to typify that day to coming ages,—the one, a gray-haired gentleman, whose fathers had quit themselves like men, whose sons lay in nameless graves;†
Chpt 2
Definition:
to be a typical example of; or to represent or be characteristic of