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King Capo
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Posted: Sunday September 25th, 2005 17:50 |
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The Souls of Black Folk - by W. E. B. Du Bois
This book may help some better understand the Black American, aswell help the Black American understand himself.
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=039KVS2E831EX3AD55KWZU5KE8
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Posted: Sunday September 25th, 2005 17:58 |
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2-300 WORD ESSAY ON:
How does Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folks help us better understand the African American?
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Posted: Sunday September 25th, 2005 18:19 |
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| This is not the Bio, would you like me to quote some of it for you?
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Posted: Sunday September 25th, 2005 18:30 |
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 I really think everyone needs to understand black america's experience, in the united states. too many of "us," who are from outside the u.s. prefer to accept the lies that have been fed to them about us, here in the states, than to form their own opinion based on personal experiences. I, myself have encountered many blacks from Britian, who look down upon us for not owning as many homes as other groups, having prestigious employment or "living the down-trodden lifestyle" that most of us are living. these folks don't have a clue. the very people , who enslaved our great grandparents mentally and physically, are the great grandparents of those that continue to enslave us mentally, and we gladly accept it(those that have this mentality). we are at the brink of losing so much at this state in the game. as a matter of fact, who truly owns this website??
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Posted: Monday September 26th, 2005 01:53 |
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Thanks for the download. I read it years ago and remembered an important observation Du Bois had made but didn't know how to find it in the book.
All I had to do was search on "buggy."
If Sam is a hard worker and crops promise well, he is often encouraged to buy more,--sugar, extra clothes, perhaps a buggy. But he is seldom encouraged to save. When cotton rose to ten cents last fall, the shrewd merchants of Dougherty County sold a thousand buggies in one season, mostly to black men.
The security offered for such transactions--a crop and chattel mortgage--may at first seem slight. And, indeed, the merchants tell many a true tale of shiftlessness and cheating; of cotton picked at night, mules disappearing, and tenants absconding. But on the whole the merchant of the Black Belt is the most prosperous man in the section. So skilfully and so closely has he drawn the bonds of the law about the tenant, that the black man has often simply to choose between pau- perism and crime; he "waives" all homestead exemptions in his contract; he cannot touch his own mortgaged crop, which the laws put almost in the full control of the land-owner and of the merchant. 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.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant. The currency of the Black Belt is cotton. It is a crop always salable for ready money, not usually subject to great yearly fluctuations in price, and one which the Negroes know how to raise. The landlord therefore demands his rent in cotton, and the merchant will accept mortgages on no other crop. There is no use asking the black tenant, then, to diversify his crops,--he cannot under this system. Moreover, the system is bound to bankrupt the tenant. |
The system is still the same but the buggies have been replaced with automobiles.
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Last edited on Monday September 26th, 2005 04:07 by umbrarchist
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Posted: Monday September 26th, 2005 09:01 |
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| do you have any more ebooks like the one you've posted?
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Posted: Monday September 26th, 2005 09:20 |
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| moved to book review forum.
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