W. E. B. Du Bois

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGY

CHAPTER I AFRICA AND AMERICA

CHAPTER II THE MAKING OF THE MAN

CHAPTER III THE WANDERJAHRE

CHAPTER IV THE SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP

CHAPTER V THE VISION OF THE DAMNED

CHAPTER VI THE CALL OF KANSAS

CHAPTER VII THE SWAMP OF THE SWAN

CHAPTER VIII THE GREAT PLAN

CHAPTER IX THE BLACK PHALANX

CHAPTER X THE GREAT BLACK WAY

CHAPTER XI THE BLOW

CHAPTER XII THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX

CHAPTER XIII THE LEGACY OF JOHN BROWN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Transcriber’s Note:

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Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania.

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These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive history of the great American sectional struggle in the form of readable and authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the co-operation of many competent writers, as will be noted from the list given below. An interesting feature of the undertaking is that the series is to be impartial, Southern writers having been assigned to Southern subjects and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but all will belong to the younger generation of writers, thus assuring freedom from any suspicion of war-time prejudice. The Civil War will not be treated as a rebellion, but as the great event in the history of our nation, which, after forty years, it is now clearly recognized to have been.