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The nation, also, forgot the deep resentment mixed with the pale ghost of fear which Negro soldiers call up in the breasts of the white South.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois reflects on the complex emotions surrounding African American soldiers and their historical relationship with the white South.
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