On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
The centre of this spiritual turmoil has ever been the millions of black freedmen and their sons, whose destiny is so fatefully bound up with that of the nation.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois identifies the freed Black population as the central figures in the ongoing spiritual and societal upheaval of the American South.
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