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Philosophy / Non-FictionLong readabout 7.5 hours to listenAdult
Essays on Black life after Emancipation — sharecropping, schools, the death of Du Bois's baby son — mixing history, memoir and argument; eloquent but scholarly and dense. Record a short sample of your voice and Voiceami narrates the whole of The Souls of Black Folk in it.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly
framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?
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